Compare and contrast.

Anonymice | 19.09.2012 10:12

The double standards that operate in the Police, British media and in general in the UK today.

Two Policewomen were killed in Manchester yesterday. They were working at the time and deliberately killed, or so it is reported. This was followed by a media outcry over their deaths.

In recent years, Police have killed very many people, either in custody, or going about their day to day business. Some people have been killed whilst engaging in what has been alleged to be criminal acts but the circumstances of their deaths indicate there was no valid reason for them to be killed. Media coverage is never hostile to the Police. It is the norm for the Police to have their actions, or conduct, justified however suspicious this looks.

In cases where Police have killed people, the media has a tendency to be pro Police, their conduct is never questioned, let alone criticised.

Inquests that are held into the deaths of people killed by Police are always biased in the favour of the Police.

Despite the numbers of people killed by Police, one way or another, to date no Police officer has been charged with manslaughter, or murder. This says it all.

Anonymice

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On Top Of Which...

19.09.2012 10:55

...it has now 'emerged' that the person in custody was on bail at the time of the incident.

This will now be used to whip up the predictable public outrage required for this régime of extreme rightists to be able to shove through - with, no doubt, the craven acquiescence of NuNu Labour - even more draconian changes to the regulations regarding bail, so that tens of thousands more people will be imprisoned without trial every year for months on end (with everything that that implies regarding loss of jobs, loss of homes, even loss of family), only to end up with the charges being dropped at the last minute by the Clown Persecution Service, or to their being acquitted, or to being given a non-custodial sentence on conviction. Such measures would almost certainly be used against all activists as a convenient way of 'neutralising' them.

TheJudge

Media not legit

19.09.2012 10:58

Just because the media do this, doesn't mean anybody gives a shut.

the media, police and politicians are all bent anyway.

ignore and let them fail naturally. be more concerned with their replacements.

anon

Their families

19.09.2012 17:14

now get a taste of what the hundreds of people left bereaved felt like (and still feel the pain) after their loved ones were murdered at the hands of british cops. Good post.

acab

really?

19.09.2012 20:25

ACAB, except for being a single issue troll whats your problem? You are defineing two people by the jobs they do not the actions they took.

Lured to a house under a pretext that they were there to deal with a burgler and get gunned down and a hand grenade thrown at them?

So because they were cops they deserve to be killed?
You know nothing about these people but your knee jerk, witless reaction is "good".

So two wrongs are right are they, if so you need to seek professional help, or maybe get a girlfriend you dont have to inflate.

your a very silly little man hideing in a self important world where you are a victim of big nasty corporations and the new world order.

Well I am a member of the real working class and you a pompous twit.

anon

Lets get some perspective here

19.09.2012 20:48

Noone deserves to be killed but there is nothing special about two police officers (they're just people like you and me).

The big problem is we're going to get a media fanfare for weeks about this which will undoubtably end up with some new legislation or draconian security measures put in place.

Also at the end of the day, much like the armed forces, sorry but it can be a very dangerous job. Expect to get hurt or killed.

The nutbag who shot them and tried to blow them up will spend the rest of his life locked up.

However the numerous unjustified and immoral* police shootings and overseas murders by our forces will never go punished.

* I say immoral as I do not believe the word illegal is applicable as it has so many written exclusions. The golden rule should be golden and not subject to interpretation based on politics and policy.

KermitTheFrog

@anon

19.09.2012 23:01

Well I am a member of the real working class and you a pompous twit. Got a complex?

hovis

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Some perspective

20.09.2012 08:28

"Noone deserves to be killed but there is nothing special about two police officers (they're just people like you and me). "

In point of fact they are not, their job requires them to do what "you and me" do not do, to step into danger, to defend people they do not know and to do it every day. If your house is burgled, your body assaulted or some other crime takes place you do not call the local library , the greengrocers or a nearby Ford dealer you ring the police and the person they send despite having no personnel connection with you whatsoever will willingly defend you, fight for you and even give their life for you.

Society reveres police officers because we understand they do work that most would not, we have the same attitude to fire fighters for the same reason. As such when some of them are killed for simply doing their job there is a national interest and outcry.

Randoo

the state the state the state

20.09.2012 09:10

Corporate media depends upon the State (i.e. corporate advertising revenue or in the case of the BBC, collected taxes) for its survival. It shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone that the same corporate media goes out of its way to lionize those who enforce State domestic authority. The police protect the State and the media sells its audience to the State. In other words both institutions have very closely shared interests.

Personally, I agree with anon's statement, that we should be 'more concerned with their replacements.'

embee