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Course he's got a fucking mental health issue, irrespective of any other motive he might have!

See also "Brexit"

I would suspect they could use the defence of self-defence, and their actions would probably be regarded by a reasonable person as being proportionate to the circumstances. There was an eye-witness being interviewed yesterday, not long after the hideous events, who said that "the boy was lucky...

I'm hoping you mean vertically. Must have landed on his head!

I'd happily sign a petition to award him the George Cross.

Who are you to say that they, too, don't have a disability that is not visible?

OK - that's not what Grendel's post said.

Agree - it's not his place to comment at all

That is 100% horseshit - the copper used force which any reasonable person would consider as disproportionate, given the bloke was lying prone on the floor. Nothing that he had done prior to this video can change that. Burnham is talking out of his arse!

To use my solar panels as an indicator, in December (the darkest month), i generated just 83.6 kWh in the whole month. Compare this with June (the sunniest month so far, but not great as summer months go, as this thread has exemplified), in which i generated 963.1 kWh for the month (of which i...

Not "Dr" John Richmond, by any chance?

Interesting point, but I'm not sure - the news report was about maximum temperatures, so i thought i'd look at that.

OK, so this report refers to last year UK getting more hot and more wet days – Met Office But this year's data don't seem to support the trend. Here is the max temp data for the past 8 weeks (i.e. meteorological summer so far) for my local weather station (Pershore, Worcs), showing there have...

A more appropriate course of action would be to grab his hands and cuff them behind his back to neutralise any threat, not kick him senseless!

Now been suspended from all duties. If it is appropriate now, it was appropriate in the immediate aftermath, and it is indicative of either weak leadership or an atrocious culture (possibly both).

They always are in this type of situation, as they have primacy until such time as they decide it is NOT terrorism, when they hand it back to local plod. Similar to deaths in the workplace (etc.), where the police will first establish whether there is any criminal basis, and if there isn't...

He is guilty (at least on the face of the video evidence) of assault at least. It could be regarded as violent conduct, grievious bodily harm with intent, or even, as shmee said, attempted murder. If that lad had a bleed on the brain and died (which may happen some time in the future), it would...

To be fair to him (and i generally think he's a knob), it was him who commissioned the independent inquiry into GMP.

GMP are on a par with the Met on that score, apparently, and have been the subject of a fairly recent (i.e. LAST WEEK) independent review by a top barrister into the treatment of women by their officers.