The death of ex footballer Dalian Atkinson

[TTmonkey]

I remember when Dalian died it was painted as a result of heart failure during an arrest where he was violent and out of control.

But the prosecutors in the murder trial are giving a much different picture.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-5...

Kicking an unconscious man prone on the floor with such force that the boot left an imprint on his head. Since when has this been a police tactic? In the U.K.????

The officers were not assaulted. An yet they are both charged with using excessive force on a man that was incapacitated, both kicking and batoning the prone footballer after he received a totally excessive tazer shock.

Sickening. No indication that there was a racial motive, but I suspect it probably would not have ended like this for a white person lying on the ground.

Edited by TTmonkey on Tuesday 4th May 19:06

[bitchstewie]

It certainly doesn't sound very good from what I've read.

In fact it sounds fking awful.

Not that I'd want to be on trial accused of that at any time but given events in the US a couple of weeks ago especially not now.

[SydneyBridge]

Tasers are meant to be used in 5 second bursts, did not work twice so overrode it for 30 secs, then the beating started...

Disgrace

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-5...

[Evolved]

Awful, some people when they have a uniform on become power mad nutters. Let’s hope justice is served and they end up doing time. They’ll learn what it’s like to have excessive force used on them inside.

[ReallyReallyGood]

30 seconds of tazer sounds horrendous - enough to kill?

[rover 623gsi]

grim - not looking good for the cops

[AJL308]

rover 623gsi said:

grim - not looking good for the cops

Not at all. That's a horrendous series of events, quite honestly. The bloke is clearly a psycho showing off to his bird.

[TTmonkey]

AJL308 said:

rover 623gsi said:

grim - not looking good for the cops

Not at all. That's a horrendous series of events, quite honestly. The bloke is clearly a psycho showing off to his bird.

Did their management know they were in a relationship at the time? It doesn’t say.

[AJL308]

TTmonkey said:

AJL308 said:

rover 623gsi said:

grim - not looking good for the cops

Not at all. That's a horrendous series of events, quite honestly. The bloke is clearly a psycho showing off to his bird.

Did their management know they were in a relationship at the time? It doesn’t say.

I was always under the impression that if two cops got together the policy was to separate their shifts at the very least and preferably move them to different stations.

[Rh14n]

Whatever the result of this trial is, one has to ask the question why it's taken 5 years to get to trial? If innocent, that's an awful long time to have the stress of this hanging over them.

[Bigends]

Rh14n said:

Whatever the result of this trial is, one has to ask the question why it's taken 5 years to get to trial? If innocent, that's an awful long time to have the stress of this hanging over them.

Trials ae taking their time to come to court at the moment. The South Yorks officer who batoned the 17yr old at the footy match in Feb 2020 isnt up for trial until March 2022

[Tom1312]

Awful.

Just awful.

[mac96]

Tom1312 said:

Awful.

Just awful.

This. At least it's on the BBC News UK front page now, but where has been the outrage?

Of course the officers probably wouldn't have been there in the first place but for the lack of 24/7 mental health services with better training in dealing with people having mental health crises.

[XCP]

AJL308 said:

I was always under the impression that if two cops got together the policy was to separate their shifts at the very least and preferably move them to different stations.

That may be true these days but I very much doubt it. I had a married couple on my shift. Made the mistake of putting them in the same car once. Never again!

[TTmonkey]

XCP said:

That may be true these days but I very much doubt it. I had a married couple on my shift. Made the mistake of putting them in the same car once. Never again!

They probably hated it. I would.

[Terminator X]

TTmonkey said:

I remember when Dalian died it was painted as a result of heart failure during an arrest where he was violent and out of control.

But the prosecutors in the murder trial are giving a much different picture.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-5...

Kicking an unconscious man prone on the floor with such force that the boot left an imprint on his head. Since when has this been a police tactic? In the U.K.????

The officers were not assaulted. An yet they are both charged with using excessive force on a man that was incapacitated, both kicking and batoning the prone footballer after he received a totally excessive tazer shock.

Sickening. No indication that there was a racial motive, but I suspect it probably would not have ended like this for a white person lying on the ground.

Edited by TTmonkey on Tuesday 4th May 19:06

Lol just because a person happens to be black doesn't make whatever happened racially motivated. You don't think white people get a kicking from the rozzers?

TX.

[XCP]

TTmonkey said:

XCP said:

That may be true these days but I very much doubt it. I had a married couple on my shift. Made the mistake of putting them in the same car once. Never again!

They probably hated it. I would.

Undoubtedly. Both approached me ( separately) to ask that I never did it again!

[PurpleTurtle]

What we've heard so far is prosecution opening case. They've got an incredible amount of detail, one assumes from bodycam footage?

[GranpaB]

That is really bad from the police and this just adds to the resentment they are getting.

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDooDoo]

Certainly a bit different to what they originally claimed