"PC Harwood, who is suspended from the force on full pay, has been told he will not face any criminal prosecutions over what happened”

Holy fucking shit in a jar! He’s suspended (aka on holiday), with full fucking pay? And won’t be held responsible? Come on, you don’t suspend someone without cause, so minimally he should be charged, and not be on the fucking payroll. I guess it makes for good recruitment posters: “Join the filth, kill a bystander, and go home with a pay packet for life!”

It’s sad that outside of the UK, people still believe in the mythical “British Bobby”—the police force in the UK is just a managed group of psychopathic thugs who live to harass, beat, and violate the subjects. This testimony reminds me of the Rodney King trial in the US, where one of the cops, being shown the video saying “It all depends on how you look at it.” to which Bill Hicks added “If you play the tape backwards, you’ll see us helping Mr King get up…”