Pinko Paper Pans Protester Police

[eyethenkyew]

Reading the article you'd think we were talking about the Charge of the Light Brigade - what a load of twaddle!
Mounted Police no different to what happens at football matches - complete exaggeration of the facts in a blatant attempt to undermine the Met's handling of a very fraught situation.
Who bothers buying such "rags"??? More like an episode of Jackanory!!!
http://www.guardian.c...sts-police-under-fire

[askyourgran]

I agree eyethen, hysteria wins the day. The Police were doing their job, the trouble was getting out of hand. Why were there pregnant women and children in the crowd? You would think that they would have the nous to steer clear of any disturbance.

[joggerjayne]

"Who bothers buying such "rags"?"

Err ... me.

=0)

[R1Geezer]

just machine gun the brats, that'd sort it!

[jake-the-peg]

The video certainly doesn't look that extreme does it?

Perhaps the Guardian should have made it clearer that phrases like "charging the crowd" were reported and not theirs.

That seems likely given that other sources use the phrase

Rather amusingly the Mail repeatedly uses the awkward phrase "trotted at the crowd" presumably to specifically avoid using a term that might reflect badly on the Police.

It certainly wasn't Peterloo though was it? and I don't see any reports of injuries

[joggerjayne]

Is "to trot" (at) even a transitive verb ?

Surely you can only trot "towards" something.

[askyourgran]

This is the Guardian not the Daily Wail or Daily Excess JJ.

[jake-the-peg]

It's the Mail that has "trotting at" Gran

The Guardian would have said "tritting ot"

[dotty.]

what kind of shoes are those horses shod with that allows them to be galloped on tarmac? That's very dangerous to the animal, I remember being horrified when McCloud galloped his horse down the streets of New York

[joggerjayne]

Well, clearly not, AYG.

The title refers to "Paper" (presumably a contraction of "newspaper").

I don't think the Mail or the Express claim to be "newspapers".

The M and the E are "raggy tabloids"

[woofgang]

gotta love that headline though

[R1Geezer]

they have rubber bottoms, grip like car tyres.

[Gromit]

It seems like an appropriate response. That woman complaining about her purse could have easily killed several police officers, she was so angry. They shouldn't have taken her hat as well, just asking for trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikQBodQOoQ&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-1-HM

[Gromit]

It is interesting that in this age of new media, the public are bypassing the established media with their amateur films. The demonstrations were heavily filmed and with many journalists and photographers mingling in the crowds, yet no TV pictures or photographs of the incident were shown or published.

As with the G20 death, the established media readily accepted the Police version of events (which proved to be completely false) and as with this incident, they report on YouTube footage later when the lies are exposed and the denials become untenable.

You would hope that they would have learned from the G20 incident, that if they had charged the crowd last week, that it would be on film (there were 1000+ people there and most phones these days can film video), and their lies would soon be exposed.

[When the] // Met's commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, was asked if there had been horse charges at the protests. He replied: "I was at the debrief last night, there was no reference to that whatsoever and I have no reference to it." //

You have to question his competence.

[eyethenkyew]

Hang on - "the G20 incident" : But did the CPS subsequently prosecute anyone???

I think the answer to that is: "No, they didn't."

And the Met Commissioner was also vindicated when he was challenged about whether or not Police horses had "charged" the protesters. Not only was he unaware of such reports, but his comments were proven correct as per the YouTube video which categorically proves that the horses did not "charge" anyone.

[Gromit]

No. That is part of the problem. They know they can get away with it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-london-11864361

[eyethenkyew]

"part of the problem" ??? I'd rather have a Police Force which was accountable to the proper authorities and laws of the land than to kangaroo courts as is implied here. The law is not a popularity tool which must be applied in order to satisfy the whim of those who disagree with it.
The only "problem" is when certain individuals in our midst cannot accept the democratic process but would instead prefer their own brand of "justice" instead. That is called "revenge" and is not on the statute books of the UK. It is practised in uncivilised and godforsaken countries where the rule of law does not exist.

[jake-the-peg]

You mean the sort of individuals who cannot accept the democratic process and continue to break the law by fox hunting or by breaking the speed limit or by buying things "cash in hand" to avoid VAT?

or the sort of individuals that don't accept the specific democratic principles that you personally approve of?

[123everton]

I've followed Everton home and away since my teens, been to europe and all over.
I've never seen horses rush in like that, I've been squashed against a wall by a horse many times (not recently) something the film shows very clearly.
I fail to grasp the need to do it, everything seemed quite calm.

[Answerprancer]

LOL @ "pinko paper" - I have a vision of duckman spitting his false teeth all down his black shirt as he types this.

zieg heil !

[eyethenkyew]

Correction: false "tooth" - singular!!!