retrocop - // //I am surprised that you, as an ex-police officer, are condoning assault.//
Well I am full of surprises. Different times. Different Police today.
The police would immediately arrest the unwashed and ignorant for Obstructing the Highway Sec 121 Highways act to prevent any potential assault when I was a serving officer. If they are unwilling or reluctant to take action then they are best off making tea for these morons whilst ordinary folk do their job for them. We called it doing a Nelson and it worked //
What may or may not have happened in your day does not address my point.
In your posts, you have twice clearly sanctioned the use of force, specifically assault, in order to alter a situation.
That is against the law - it was when you were an officer, and it is now, so I repeat my question - how do you advocate illegal assaults against members of the public, when your career was based on upholding the law, whether you happened to think it was right, or not.