[DCM]

http://news.sky.com/story/1431286/bodyca...on-officer

Quote:

Bodycam Captures 'Vicious' Attack On Officer
A man in handcuffs repeatedly bangs a woman officer's head on the ground in an assault which is caught on her body camera.

Footage has emerged of a "disgusting and vicious" attack on a woman police officer which was captured on her body camera.

Video

Sergeant Kerry Lawrence's head was repeatedly banged on the ground by a handcuffed suspect during the assault in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

It happened in the early hours of 6 July last year when she was responding to a report of a burglary in progress.

The video released by her force showed her attacker, Craig Radbourne, apparently drunk, in handcuffs and protesting in a squad car before he lashes out.


Craig Radbourne launches his assault on the officer

An unknown man is then heard calling the emergency services, saying: "We need police, ambulance, everything. Your officer is down, she's on the floor."

The man tried to reassure the officer and she appealed on her radio for colleagues to "hurry up". Back-up is heard arriving minutes later.

Radbourne, 25, of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.

He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to three years in prison.

The video was described by Judge Susan Evans QC as "nothing short of sickening" and she added the officer was fortunate not to be more seriously hurt.


police mugshot of Radbourne, whose attack was described as 'disgusting'

She is now back at work on full duties.

A Hampshire police spokeswoman said: "Radbourne was arrested by the officer on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly. He had been placed in handcuffs and into a police car before additional units arrived.

"However, before officers arrived, Radbourne managed to strike out at Sgt Lawrence, viciously attacking her and banging her head on the ground several times.

"He was subsequently re-arrested by other officers nearby and taken into police custody."

Chief Inspector Simon Dodds said: "This was a disgusting attack on a member of my team, who works tirelessly to serve her community."

Simon Hayes, police and crime commissioner for Hampshire, criticised the sentence as being lenient.

He said: "I am disappointed that Mr Radbourne has only been sentenced to three years in prison for the extremely violent assault against Sgt Kerry Lawrence. I would hope that he is made to serve the full sentence."

[WanderingSoul]

It's almost as if having women as police officers isn't a good idea.

Crazy.

[kbell]

If she can't subdue a drunk guy in handcuffs, how is she still be considered fit to be an officer?

[Glaucon]

We have to teach criminals not to hit women!

[Saga]

(Today 10:06 AM)Glaucon Wrote:  

We have to teach criminals not to hit women!

Expecting people to parry is punch culture!

[Suits]

You do not cuff a subject's hands in front of them unless it's a white colour political arrest for the TV cameras with hundreds of officers taking part in bringing one individual.

[Teedub]

(Today 10:12 AM)Saga Wrote:  

(Today 10:06 AM)Glaucon Wrote:  

We have to teach criminals not to hit women!

Expecting people to parry is punch culture!

[Yatagan]

(Today 09:49 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

It's almost as if having women as police officers isn't a good idea.

Crazy.

or as firemen, guards at men's prisons and the combat arms.

[Sonsowey]

If this was the U.S. would this guy be shot dead in the streets?

I mean people get shot by cops for nothing frequently. If this was the U.S. and she smoked this guy I do not think he would get a lot of sympathy. Hitting a cop has to be the dumbest thing you can do.

[teh_skeeze]

You guys are looking at this all wrong. This is a major win for the prison industrial complex. If the arresting officer is a 6'4" 225lb. man, they just get the perp on a DUI. Now he gets to go to prison for a while, where he can work in a for profit prison for $0.15/hr.

[Gopnik]

(Today 11:30 AM)Seboist Wrote:  

(Today 09:49 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

It's almost as if having women as police officers isn't a good idea.

Crazy.

or as firemen, guards at men's prisons and the combat arms.

If they actually had to pass the same physical/fitness tests then this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, only the top 5% of women would be able to get into these professions. IMO This wouldn't so much be limited by a genetic potential but by actual dedication and hard work. I used to train olympic weightlifting when I was 15 and at my gym there were two national and one European female champions. These girls could easily squat 3x their body weight. Similarly, female police officers could compensate by training mma etc but obviously all of this would require hard work that goes against the feminist dogma.

[Tytalus]

(Today 12:55 PM)Luisaceo Wrote:  

(Today 11:30 AM)Seboist Wrote:  

(Today 09:49 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

It's almost as if having women as police officers isn't a good idea.

Crazy.

or as firemen, guards at men's prisons and the combat arms.

If they actually had to pass the same physical/fitness tests then this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, only the top 5% of women would be able to get into these professions. IMO This wouldn't so much be limited by a genetic potential but by actual dedication and hard work. I used to train olympic weightlifting when I was 15 and at my gym there were two national and one European female champions. These girls could easily squat 3x their body weight. Similarly, female police officers could compensate by training mma etc but obviously all of this would require hard work that goes against the feminist dogma.

In some cities they used to. I remember in grade 6, so 1996 a female police officer giving us a presentation - and someone asked about the physical requirements were. Her exact words were "we had to pass the same test the men did."

That said, clearly this woman was caught off, and also clearly, did not have the upper body strength nor the training to defend herself.

[eclipse]

(Today 10:37 AM)Suits Wrote:  

You do not cuff a subject's hands in front of them unless it's a white colour political arrest for the TV cameras with hundreds of officers taking part in bringing one individual.

I assumed the criminal had has hands cuffed behind him, reading the title. Because I mean, that is what happens right?

I was like, dang, Little Dark got arrested? I wondered if he used his arms or legs.

[roberto]

Emergency service culture in the UK is so PC it's laughable.

My mate from school is 25, 6'4, built like a brick shithouse, above average intelligence and has always wanted to join the police. Been turned down five times. It's not about best man for the job, it's about the most diverse candidate. Same with the fire brigade. Every time there is a recruiting drive, you will see the same bullshit under the advert- 'XXX Polive Force/Fire Brigage is an Equal Oppertunities employer". Basically this means they will choose the most politically correct applicant. There's even a phrase for it- positive discrimination:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/...law-change

Ironically the prick in the link above is the ex chief constable of Hampshire- the county in the OP. You reap what you sow, motherfucker.

Our (admittedly small) town has two full time cops. One is a woman, under 5' tall. The other is a 5'2" tall bloke. It's laughable. Good job the last murder was ten years ago. We call them the laptops.

[Basil Ransom]

"If they actually had to pass the same physical/fitness tests then this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, only the top 5% of women would be able to get into these professions. IMO This wouldn't so much be limited by a genetic potential but by actual dedication and hard work. "

Nice feminist fantasy there. If the strength standards are at all competitive, very few women would make it. Most men with enough training could bench press 225+. Very few drug free women could. Women may have decent leg strength for their size, but a) their upper body strength is a joke and b) strength relative to bodyweight is totally irrelevant - absolute strength is what matters. Some 6'5" 250 lb biker dude resisting arrest is not going to be like "oh ma'am you're a featherweight and I'm a heavyweight, so I'll play nice."

"In some cities they used to. I remember in grade 6, so 1996 a female police officer giving us a presentation - and someone asked about the physical requirements were. Her exact words were "we had to pass the same test the men did." "

She was probably lying - see above. Or the test was bullshit. Or there were different standards for men and women. Now, I would call different standards a different test, but pro-affirmative action types are often professional bullshitters, and so when say female Marines have to take *A* pullup test like the male Marines, but don't need to do as many, they will imply they are similar. They'll say, "we had to take a pullup test, just like the men." Which is technically true.

When you hire lots of women (or just weak people generally) into the police, events like this proliferate. There are four possible responses:

1. Carry on as before, as the injuries and deaths of women officers increases
2. Allow greater use of weapons by police to close the strength gap between weak officers and criminals. More gunshots, more tasers. Use of stronger weapons will not be confined to the weak and female officers, as they will become department policy.
3. Female and weak officers become window dressing, and cops will simply send more officers to incidents. This becomes ingrained in policy - and not just as a directive of "send more officers when it's a woman officer" but to send more officers in general, regardless of circumstance. Unions like this, because it means more jobs and power for police. As their numbers get stretched thin, police can't respond to as many incidents.
4. Enforce objective standards across the board, leading to a virtually all male force.

The public won't allow #1, letting women die, excluding them from the force will be politically impossible. #2, using more brutal weapons, has happened, although it's not clear female officers had anything to do with it.

That leaves us with #3. In the military, there is something called a force multiplier, a device or technique that makes a fighter more effective by some multiple. Eg, giving a man a gun, versus gunless adversaries, could make him equivalent to ten or 20 gunless men. Weaklings on the force are a potential force DIVIDER, their presence requires you put out MORE officers to accomplish the SAME objective. Rest assured, when police budgets go up and effectiveness goes down, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE who matters will point to the prevalence of weak officers on the force being a cause. Everyone will just scratch their head in confusion.

Then again, there are so many fat fucks among police that maybe it's already fucked. Female firemen are far more concerning, when they can't carry your adult male sized body out of a burning building.

Female firemen + obese population = Grease Fires http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ation.html

All Hail Progress!

[CrimsonDeep85]

Remind me again why we have female police officers ??? I don't know much about the justice system because I've never been under their scrutiny except back when I was a teenager.

[Constitution45]

The police fitness test in the U.K is not intensive and yes its done by both men and women. You have the standard medical check up and a bleep test to 6-7 bleeps. The fitness standard has been lowered since the old days, but they are trying to bring it back up. The police is a big organisation and there is a its part of the "Policing with consent" culture, so they don't push the physical side of things that much.
But still you have the special units like Territorial Support Group, CO19 (Firearms) and they have a high standard of fitness and usually are called in whenever shit hits the fan.

It is a joke that police officers in the U.K don't carry guns, they are slowly bringing in tasers but its not routine.

[AnonymousBosch]

(Today 05:10 PM)roberto Wrote:  

My mate from school is 25, 6'4, built like a brick shithouse, above average intelligence and has always wanted to join the police.

That's his problem. They want black-and-white thinkers in the force, not critical ones. They're allowed to discriminate against high intelligence as being 'overqualified'.

My town's force seems to be 50% swaggering dykes.

[El Chinito loco]

Mainstream culture is fed a steady diet of women physically kicking ass. Nearly every action or cop drama orientated TV show has this now.

This is pretty old and one of the cop shows did a piece on it before.

Woman cop does a traffic stop on felon with his kid. Felon doesn't want to go back to jail and absolutely destroys woman cop. Ground and pounds her MMA style.

This is what actually happens when a woman goes up against a large aggressive man.

[testosterone]

I read years ago, they reckon 1000 innocent people die a year in the USA cause of female cops cause they are unable to arrest a man. This guy was skinny and in handcuffs and she couldn't hold her ground.

When I was younger (20 years ago), when there was a fight between gangs at the pub, if the police came with 1 female cop, they cops would let us punch on cause the female cop would suffer from serious injuries, trying to break up the fights. If the police were all men, they would break up the fights and send us all home. It use to happen every weekend.

Women destroy countries hence why they were never allowed into power positions cause they are emotionally beings. Men work on logic where all this crap today are by women being run by their emotions. Most of women vote to the Left where weak men support them. Strong Men vote to the Right.

5 to 4 votes for Federal agents to pull down the Barbwire in Texas. The 4 that voted YES were all women while the 4 opposed were Men!