12 year old assaulted no action from police
12 year old assaulted no action from police
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DBSV8

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5,958 posts

267 months

Wednesday 11th May 2022
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very poor decision from the police not to prosecute

https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/bristol-boy-12-left...

video shows woman acting extremely aggressively , if anything that's threatening behaviour

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10804727/...

shocking causing injury and walking off ................

Don Roque

18,280 posts

188 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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No action? The article says the woman was arrested and interviewed and the case was subject to consideration for prosecution.

LosingGrip

8,844 posts

188 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Don Roque said:
No action? The article says the woman was arrested and interviewed and the case was subject to consideration for prosecution.
And the witness confirms what the suspect said about she pushed him etc.

As the letter says, it doesn’t show what happened fully in the video.

helix402

7,913 posts

211 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Mother has complained so police have re opened job.

Driveeasy

87 posts

55 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Sad that the kid only feels loved because of support from people on Instagram.

DaveA8

749 posts

110 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Who knows but the fact she could push him means they were in each others space and the talk of surrounding group which I read as not friendly to her all make it more difficult.
I remember from doing the doors a few incidents where the aggressor came off worse and initially was treated as the victim.
It is a nasty wound but if it's a boating lake and she was boating, the immediate defence is I guess that she didn't have it as a weapon.
She'll no doubt be looking over her shoulder for a while and he'll have a scar.
In defence of the Police, they could probably write chapter and verse but it's not their fault that the quality of witness is likely appalling and the back story leading up to it iffy.

thewarlock

3,285 posts

74 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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DaveA8 said:
Who knows but the fact she could push him means they were in each others space and the talk of surrounding group which I read as not friendly to her all make it more difficult.
I remember from doing the doors a few incidents where the aggressor came off worse and initially was treated as the victim.
It is a nasty wound but if it's a boating lake and she was boating, the immediate defence is I guess that she didn't have it as a weapon.
She'll no doubt be looking over her shoulder for a while and he'll have a scar.
In defence of the Police, they could probably write chapter and verse but it's not their fault that the quality of witness is likely appalling and the back story leading up to it iffy.
Yes, you can see her getting in their personal space when she marches up to them, shouting and pointing, being aggressive, and holding a large oar, in the video.

Biggus thingus

1,358 posts

73 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Thank goodness for social media

DaveA8

749 posts

110 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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thewarlock said:
DaveA8 said:
Who knows but the fact she could push him means they were in each others space and the talk of surrounding group which I read as not friendly to her all make it more difficult.
I remember from doing the doors a few incidents where the aggressor came off worse and initially was treated as the victim.
It is a nasty wound but if it's a boating lake and she was boating, the immediate defence is I guess that she didn't have it as a weapon.
She'll no doubt be looking over her shoulder for a while and he'll have a scar.
In defence of the Police, they could probably write chapter and verse but it's not their fault that the quality of witness is likely appalling and the back story leading up to it iffy.
Yes, you can see her getting in their personal space when she marches up to them, shouting and pointing, being aggressive, and holding a large oar, in the video.
From that video all you see is any angry woman with a paddle getting in a pale boys face and saying something about children and turning around and walking away. We have no idea why she was angry or what lead up to it
That has zero value to anyone as I can't see she hit the boy and she was leaving ( if she's leaving, she's not a threat), where is the video that shows the injured boy and her and that confrontation, maybe all the phones ran out of charge

defblade

8,051 posts

242 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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DaveA8 said:
From that video all you see is any angry woman with a paddle getting in a pale boys face and saying something about children and turning around and walking away. We have no idea why she was angry or what lead up to it
That has zero value to anyone as I can't see she hit the boy and she was leaving ( if she's leaving, she's not a threat), where is the video that shows the injured boy and her and that confrontation, maybe all the phones ran out of charge
I think he's in the last few frames and already has the gash on his forehead. So I guess filming started after he was hit.
She's certainly not making her escape after barely fending off a terrifying pack of feral kids.

otolith

68,681 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Adult attacks 12 year old child and leaves them needing medical attention.

Wonder what would happen if the perpetrator had been a bloke.

R56Cooper

2,533 posts

252 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Sounds to me like the case is still under review and no decision to charge has been made.

The statement from the chief inspector appears to be criticising the PC for not informing the family that they had a right to have the decision reviewed, not that the initial decision to take no further action was wrong.

The 11 second clip appears to have been taken after the event and from what I can see, there is no video evidence available to show what actually happened leading up to the injury. Impossible to say whether the investigating officer made the right call but it's under review.

Also, it appears that whilst the initial complaint was one of assault, the family have since alleged that it was racially motivated, so it is being investigated as an allegation of racially motivated assault.

Still, won't stop the armchair experts from slating the police, even though all they've read is a click bait wail article.

Edited by R56Cooper on Thursday 12th May 10:31

DaveA8

749 posts

110 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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defblade said:
DaveA8 said:
From that video all you see is any angry woman with a paddle getting in a pale boys face and saying something about children and turning around and walking away. We have no idea why she was angry or what lead up to it
That has zero value to anyone as I can't see she hit the boy and she was leaving ( if she's leaving, she's not a threat), where is the video that shows the injured boy and her and that confrontation, maybe all the phones ran out of charge
I think he's in the last few frames and already has the gash on his forehead. So I guess filming started after he was hit.
She's certainly not making her escape after barely fending off a terrifying pack of feral kids.
Fair play, I now see him in the picture. As I said in my 1st post, she'll be looking over her shoulder for a while regardless.
The notion of self defence is poorly taught especially by these hybrid martial arts schools. I used to take my youngest to a little Saturday morning football training session, the guy who ran it was a cheapskate as despite charging nicely, he avoided paying for the exclusive use of the 3G and that meant that others could use it. Bearing in mind the kids were 7 to 8 yrs old, older teenagers would come in and play down the end or riding bikes. They often kicked balls very hard near the little ones. I tried in a friendly way to ask them to be careful but knew that this would just make them worse and it did. I went back one more time and they were there and after a short while took my boy and left. I don't need the aggro or want to watch out when I go by that way.
The woman in this video and the kids both made bad choices, which was first who knows but both probably wish they'd done things differently, I revert to my comment, just because one party comes off worse, does not mean they are without blame.

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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From what I have heard/read the kids were targetting the boaters so assume they were throwing things which triggered the confrontation. I am not condoning the results but I don't think it was just a 'woman randomly walks up to kids and smacks one' situation which is what seems to be all that is being reported.

If it was a random incident I doubt she would have got 'let off' first time round.

OutInTheShed

14,424 posts

55 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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From what I can see here, it's consistent with:

Group of canoeists on a river.
Bunch of ferals throw mud and stones
Canoe woman remonstrates with ferals
ferals react badly
....
Race Card is played.

On a car forum, this leads to the question of what will you do if some ferals start throwing stones at your car?

otolith

68,681 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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OutInTheShed said:
On a car forum, this leads to the question of what will you do if some ferals start throwing stones at your car?
Would you go and punch a child in the face for it and expect not to get your collar felt?

WTactualF

16 posts

121 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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So we are here again - and no surprise on the responses, expectation and explanations.

Apparently:
Children throwing something at rowers
Rower chooses to remonstrate with them
One child is injured
Police arrest and then de-arrest rower
Family are not informed they have the right to have the decision to not investigate further or take any action reviewed
Family turn to social media and public regarding their version of events - Autistic child, not involved and rower selective chose him to get bulk of remonstration

Police decide to apologise for not mentioning families rights and will look into it again given they believe he was singled out as the black child in the group and he was the injured party.

Standard PH response follows - We don’t know enough, Police followed normal actions, no proof race was involved, little scrote deserved it.

Where it happens differentials in treatment that are underpinned by race are subtle nowadays - for example in this case - selecting the black child as the key perpetrator, The police choice to de-arrest, not mentioning the right to review ALL could be interpreted through this lens and note that could be interpreted but that possibility ALWAYS needs proof just to be considered possible which is a very disturbing state of thinking from supposedly open minded, educated adults discussing a news story.

We could save a lot of time and effort by the honest admission - The circumstances under which the collective will accept race as a factor in any of these reports is if it all happens in clan robes, with a burning cross, a lynching happening and video showing the entire day from start to finish.

Let’s see what said about the next story with similar circumstances (probably within the next week) as for some reason they happen with alarming frequency but only amongst certain groups and types or people.



OutInTheShed

14,424 posts

55 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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I don't think that wound is consistent with a kayak paddle.

otolith

68,681 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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It wasn't a kayak paddle, it was a paddleboard paddle.

ofcorsa

3,546 posts

272 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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OutInTheShed said:
I don't think that wound is consistent with a kayak paddle.
You do sound like you're familiar with head trauma TBH