Police can only work with public consent. They are vastly outnumbered and ultimately out-gunned (even in the UK). They can function to a limited extent when they have replaced public respect with fear, but when they cross the line into public hatred, things fall apart.

That’s obviously been Photoshopped. When you read the police reports, it was the crowds who were so unruly that the police were unable to get him help.

In the video you can clearly see it’s the protestors themselves who move the crowd, not by swinging a truncheon but by actually telling the masses “Hey, back the fuck up – this guy is having a heart attack”. And the people respond.

It’s almost like… if you use your words instead of shoving people around, they’ll actually react voluntarily in the manner you wish!

And since we know thats bullshit… it’s all shooped in that one.

or

Medicine: you’re doing it wrong.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcrustyape/3406023407/sizes/o/

The standard tissue blungeoner shown above is used throughout most of the UK, with the exception of Irleand where they uses medicinal shelalees.

On a lighter note, when you have a nose job, the doctor more or less sticks a screwdriver up your nose and yanks it side to side to break it.

^m^

It had all started with demands for a more militant and homogeneous police force, for greater technical resources in general, and for more firearms in particular. To get this it had been necessary to exaggerate the hazards that policemen faced. Since verbiage had not proved politically effective enough, recourse had then been made to another method: namely, the manipulation of statistics.

At this juncture the political demonstrations during the second half of the sixties had opened up magnificent possibilities. Demonstrators pleading for peace had been suppressed by violence. Hardly ever armed with anything but their banners and their convictions, they had been met by tear gas, water cannons, and rubber nightsticks. Few were the nonviolent demonstrations that had not ended in tumult and chaos. The individuals who had tried to defend themselves had been mauled about, arrested, and prosecuted for “assaulting the police” or “resisting arrest.” All this information had been fed into the statistics. The method worked perfectly. Each time a few hundred policemen were sent out to “control” a demonstration, the figures for alleged assaults against police had rocketed.

That’s from the Locked Room, written in 1972.

The Blair regime, and the Brown one that followed it, have really increased the scope of this kind of thing (Jacqui Smith barely bothers to cloak her totalitarian designs), but similar things have been happening in the UK since the 1960s. The Battle of the Beanfield is an excellent example.

The police are at least as much of a problem as they crime they are supposedly controlling (even when the police aren’t actually being bribed to look the other way by criminals: that being an example of regulatory capture) just like the critics of Sir Robert Peel predicted when Peel created the Metropolitan Police Force.

A police medic is just a normal cop with some medical training. So he can beat all the meat he wants.

What he does at home after his shift isn’t the issue in contention, here :p