Obviously, there has been cases where the public servants needed to step up their game to control rowdy public in recent days, as there are more mindless people disobeying orders for public sanitation without justification or verifiable excuses.
However, such cracking down should be also equally justifiable, and supported through the constitution with full understanding of their power limitations and full understanding of their entailed duties of their job descriptions. Although, we respect the police force for their general service, sometimes this goes way overboard, ending up in a pretty ugly sight.
And no, this time it’s not the USA but the UK that is having problems with police gone awry.
Lancashire Police have investigation going straight into the matter in their hands, when a video catching one of their officers in direct breach of his power limitations and going so far as to actually breaking the law. The policy officer used ‘completely unacceptable’ lingo against the falsely accused young man, leading to the police force officially apologizing to the public.
A young man, allegedly from Accrington, described that he was trying to pick up his bike when the police came near and started asking questions. The young man is heard in the video saying: ‘You’re harassing me, what for? I’ve done nothing wrong…’
The Officer is heard loud and clear, abusing his rights and duties, while even not keeping the usual social distancing measures as well: ‘Sit in your car and shut up.’ It has not been cleared whether the police officer actually had an issue relative to the recent quarantine measures placed on Britain. The police officer then adds: ‘I’ll lock you up… I’ll make something up… who are they going to believe, me or you?’
Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said in the statement: ‘The footage shows language and behaviour from one officer which were completely unacceptable and for this I apologise without reservation.’
‘We recognise the impact that this behaviour will have had, both on the young man concerned, and on the hard-earned trust and confidence of the wider public, particularly the comments about making offences up. It only takes one incident like this to undo the hard work of so many.’
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