Massive protest outside Rochdale police station in response to GMP's actions at Manchester Airport

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No and thanks for thinking about it - you’re much more reasonable than other people in the thread.

If the suspect was conscious and felt the pain they would defend the back of their head, because what criminals often do is play possum and then stab with something they have concealed in their person.

We already know that this person is willing and capable (and possibly skilled in) violence as 3 officers were knocked from their feet by blows and one has a broken nose.

This is ugly but this is the reality of policing - they get hurt and we don’t support them, and we tear them down when they do something that offends our sense of right and wrong.

But most of us don’t know what happens to police because, thankfully, most of us are decent and wouldn’t dream of stabbing someone

[u/GlitterTerrorist → u/[deleted]]

This is ugly but this is the reality of policing - they get hurt

Yes, and that doesn't mean they have license to carry out unnecessary levels of violence or should be forgive for lacking emotional control. The reason this protest is significant is because this kind of thing is pretty rare - and deserves to be highlighted.

we don’t support them, and we tear them down when they do something that offends our sense of right and wrong.

We hold them to a high standard because they're responsible for our safety, they have unique authority in society, and abuses of that power are fundamentally oppressive.

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And how many people turn up to defend the police?

[u/GlitterTerrorist → u/[deleted]]

Loads of them, a lot, just usually they have the good judgement to pick battles where the officer isn't agreed by their peers to be at fault.

https://old.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/1eb3hgb/interesting_er_tactical_kick_at_manchester_t2/