Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Incident on West Green Road
There's a video circulating on social media of an MPS Haringey policeman kicking a 16 year old black boy in the head during a (in their words) proactive patrol after a few robberies in the area. Surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It happened last Tuesday 8 December on West Green Road. The police have of course issued a statement too. However the statement is appalling and in no way justifies what we can all see: a grown man, a police man, punching a child in the head.
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Permalink Reply by Lenny B on
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- Always have your 'full support' in hitting an unarmed 16-year-old in the head? There it is on video. You fully support it? Really?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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If kids ( or people in general ) don't want to get in physical trouble with the police all they have to do is stay quiet and do what the officer tells them to do. But, if they take the attitude " you can't do that to ME " and resist, force will be used against them.
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This is not an objective statement of facts. I'll wait until the investigation is over before jumping to conclusions.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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That goes without saying doesn't it? Of course, no one should ever take any press release from any source at face value.
The release does however contain the following statement of interest which answers a question I raised in my previous comment on this post.
Ken Hinds, chair of Haringey Independent Stop and Search Monitoring Group, who in an unprecedented move was allowed to view the police bodycam of the incident
The press release does not make it clear if what follows then related to that viewing or the more general narrative. However, we are at least reassured that there su a source of primary evidence that may well be able to give a wider view of the events surrounding this incident. If there is a defence for the officer's actions, then this should evidence that. If not then one hope that he will be appropriately sanctioned and the Met will look yet again and how they can prevent yet more incidents of this nature.
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I have never before commented on a chat thread before, but some of what has been said here has astounded me. At 16, this boy is legally a child - and will be for two more years. If he was your son, would you be happy for the police to treat him this way? If you would be, then I would fear for him! It certainly looks to me from this video, that the policeman's punch landed on his head. But even if it didn't, he had clearly intended it that it would. What the police "in general" are like is irrelevant (and impossible to judge, as they are all individuals, not a uniform mass). What matters here is this policeman and his treatment of this child. Thank heaven for phone filming of these incidents, because without it in this case, this child would have no means of defence against this dreadful behaviour.
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Does anyone know what came of this? I haven't heard anything about the outcome of the independent investigation.
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