Not a day goes by in Britain these days without some horrific crime story being featured in the media. Every day we see see stories of terrorism, low IQ foreigners waving machetes, rape and sexual assault, robbery, theft and a general breakdown in public safety. With a lot of these crimes the police either turn up late or not at all and when they do turn up they are often ineffective.
So what do the British police care about if they are not dealing effectively with the sort of crimes that are severely bothering the British people. Well of course they are very interested in those publishing spicy memes but they are also not averse to harassing ordinary people carrying garden tools.
I thought I’d seen so much British police incompetence, capriciousness and bias to render me numb to astonishment but I was wrong. This story shows that however buggered up you think the British police might be they have the capacity to be even more buggered. As you can see from the BBC report quoted below not only did the police go over the top by sending armed police to his house over the man’s possession of gardening equipment but also pressured the man into accepting a police caution by threatening him with longer in police custody.
The BBC said:
A man who was cautioned for carrying a bladed trowel in public has said he was given no choice but to accept the reprimand because police were unable to contact a solicitor for him.
Armed police were sent to challenge Samuel Rowe as he walked home from his allotment in Chorlton, Manchester, carrying the tool, a peeling knife and a sickle.
The 35-year-old theatre manager said he was held for 12 hours, before being told he had to accept the caution without representation or face longer in custody.
Greater Manchester Police were probably more aggressive towards this innocent and law abiding British subject than they are to those Muslims and Leftists who pollute Britain’s streets weekly calling for the murder of Jews. They were certainly more proactive towards Mr Rowe than they are to the illegal and legal imports who have turned Britain’s towns and cities into places of fear with their anti-social behaviour.
The BBC added:
The keen gardener said he was terrified when the armed officers, who did not draw their weapons, arrived outside his home on 3 July.
He said the officers were shouting at him to "drop the knife".
"I said I didn't have a knife and they told me to drop the knife again," he said.
"So I dropped my Japanese hand gardening sickle and a handful of privet that I just cut off the hedge.
"They turned me around, pushed me up against my house, handcuffed me, then put me in the back of a van."
The police’s behaviour here has probably done great damage to this man and his career. It’s not just the trauma of being treated like he has been treated but also the fact that he now has a criminal record that might affect his career. Police cautions, along with that dark stain on Britain’s legal system the ‘non crime hate incident’ appellation, might not come up in a normal police criminal records check but they certainly come up on advanced vetting of the sort that is needed to do any job involving vulnerable people or children.
If someone had erroneously reported Mr Rowe to the police for carrying sharpened objects then this could have been handled far better than it was. A knock on the door at some point from a neighbourhood officer with quiet advice about the complaint and the need to keep gardening tools under wraps would have sufficed. There was no need for what GMP did to Mr Rowe. I hope that there is some legal mechanism that Mr Rowe can access to remove this caution from his record.
When you see incidents like this and the ongoing issues of bias, politicisation and just general failure by police it’s easy to see why trust in the British police is in the damned gutter. Sadly the reputation of the police is in the gutter because that’s where their reputation now deserves to be.
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Original BBC story on this shameful incident.