Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
http://money.aol.co.uk/2015/07/14/payout-for-student-arrested-for-giving-money-to-homeless-man/?ncid=webmail9
George Wilson, 20, from Wallasey, had left a club in Liverpool in the early hours of the morning in January last year when he saw a homeless man and gave him a £1 coin.
But he was stopped by officers who believed they'd witnessed a drugs deal and arrested under the Misuse of Drugs Act. And, as one officer confiscated Mr Wilson's phone, he accidentally set it to record audio.
Mr Wilson, who was at Liverpool John Moores University at the time, told the officers he was a law student.
"Look, buddy, if I lock you up for being drunk and disorderly, because that's what you are being, you won't be a student of the law any more," one replied.
"I'll take that off you. So shut your mouth and stop being stupid."
And when Mr Wilson protested that, far from being disorderly, he'd been polite and respectful, the officer retorted: "That's not how I'll write it up, pal."
The officer later denied that he was threatening to falsify a statement, and an internal investigation concluded that the words had been ambiguous.
But the force accepted that Mr Wilson had been held longer than necessary, and paid him £5,000 in an out of court settlement.
Ambiguous! Of course he was threatening to falsify a statement, ambiguous my arse.
What happened to the police constable? You older posters will remember, the ones who would give you a clip round the ear and drag you home to your dad's welcoming strap, the ones who upheld the law, the ones who people used to look up to, not saying there weren't a few bad apples, I know there were.
But now, we have police officers, or revenue collectors for private police forces as they should be known, registered businesses, upholding statutes that strip money off those they used to protect, taking every chance to fine someone, every chance to achieve their "quota" after all that's what businesses do, and more and more we hear of shit like this, bent coppers, those drunk on their own power, the ones who used to get beat up in school and spend their adult lives with chips on their shoulders trying to screw everyone.
I know there's a few good ones out there, but it used to be a few bad ones :21:
George Wilson, 20, from Wallasey, had left a club in Liverpool in the early hours of the morning in January last year when he saw a homeless man and gave him a £1 coin.
But he was stopped by officers who believed they'd witnessed a drugs deal and arrested under the Misuse of Drugs Act. And, as one officer confiscated Mr Wilson's phone, he accidentally set it to record audio.
Mr Wilson, who was at Liverpool John Moores University at the time, told the officers he was a law student.
"Look, buddy, if I lock you up for being drunk and disorderly, because that's what you are being, you won't be a student of the law any more," one replied.
"I'll take that off you. So shut your mouth and stop being stupid."
And when Mr Wilson protested that, far from being disorderly, he'd been polite and respectful, the officer retorted: "That's not how I'll write it up, pal."
The officer later denied that he was threatening to falsify a statement, and an internal investigation concluded that the words had been ambiguous.
But the force accepted that Mr Wilson had been held longer than necessary, and paid him £5,000 in an out of court settlement.
Ambiguous! Of course he was threatening to falsify a statement, ambiguous my arse.
What happened to the police constable? You older posters will remember, the ones who would give you a clip round the ear and drag you home to your dad's welcoming strap, the ones who upheld the law, the ones who people used to look up to, not saying there weren't a few bad apples, I know there were.
But now, we have police officers, or revenue collectors for private police forces as they should be known, registered businesses, upholding statutes that strip money off those they used to protect, taking every chance to fine someone, every chance to achieve their "quota" after all that's what businesses do, and more and more we hear of shit like this, bent coppers, those drunk on their own power, the ones who used to get beat up in school and spend their adult lives with chips on their shoulders trying to screw everyone.
I know there's a few good ones out there, but it used to be a few bad ones :21:
