Heavens help our police force in the UK! They just can’t catch a break at the moment! Damed if they do, damned if they don’t!!!!

beleaguered!!!

I just don’t get it! To see improvements in any police force, you need them to attract the best, decent people. Now, how can you achieve that, when we pelt them with bricks and throw chairs at them, because we say we are protesting???!!

We are lucky to have the privilege to protest. BUT for goodness sakes! Something MUST be done urgently about violence during protests!

The current situation involves a case that was just concluded in court: a guy of Indian heritage murdered a Caucasian guy. The former claimed that the latter was drunk and racially insulted him so he took out a knife and stabbed him. When the police arrived at the scene, presumably called in to address a racial incident, there was no knife in sight, so they took the word of the sober individual (the guy who knifed the other) and handcuffed the one who appeared drunk. Later, it turns out that the sober guy was lying; it is possible that the drunk guy may have said something to offend him, but even if he did, this madness of people reaching for knives and stabbing others, is impossible to comprehend! He has taken a life! And for what? He claims the guy racially abused him! So, the response is to kill him? How can that be acceptable???!!!

But now, the police are under siege! One would hope that UK politicians and senior figures step up to lay out the facts! What else could the police have done??? Had there been a knife on the scene or other reasons to suspect the guy had been knifed, the police would never ignore that. I haven’t read the nitty gritty details, but it is obvious that the police believed what they were told by the killer and he was sober. It is possible that in these instances, the police should perhaps examine the scene and quickly determine if anyone was hurt. But I can see why things may have developed as it did. It is a tragic loss of life and a terrible crime committed by the killer, regardless of whatever he claimed led him to pull his knife (the guy he killed wasn’t carrying a gun or knife or any weapon! So, why did the killer pull a knife out??). It is unthinkable, unimaginable grief and pain for the parent of the young man who was stabbed to death and they are now having to see the name of their son dragged about by politicians, protester (who they didn’t ask to protest on their behalf) and all sorts! I can’t find adequate words to describe what those parents and rest of his family must be going through.

Now, if there is to be public outrage and protests, it needs to be for every knifing death in the UK. That will be a sensible response, to try to stamp it out completely! That would be laudable! What we shouldn’t do, is turn it into a racial matter! A life has been needlessly lost! It shouldn’t matter whether it’s a caucasian or Asian or any other.

We need the police force to attract good people. For that to happen, they cannot become the punchbag for every incident. I understand that anger at the government gets directed at what people see to be a visible arm of government, but for goodness sake, hurting a bunch of police men & women during protests is not making any point! These people may be in uniform, but they have children at home too!!!