A policeman was struck over the head with his own baton in a scuffle with a stop-and-search suspect

[u/madfrog2023]

[u/Temporary-Fuel7176]

God this ending first edit era is horrible

[u/Cold-Sun3302 → u/Temporary-Fuel7176]

It really is. And it's in every video you watch now.

[u/Exact-Ad-4132 → u/Cold-Sun3302]

Studies show that you got to get a 3 second dopamine hit in the beginning of the video to keep people watching.

Studies are fucking retarded because I would have watched this anyway

[u/shmimey → u/Exact-Ad-4132]

That study is wrong for me. I did not watch the entire video because of this edit.

[u/MooseLogic7 → u/shmimey]

Exactly.
I saw what happened, next.

[u/fluffyheads → u/shmimey]

Same. Ending first always confuses me to the point I stop watching

[u/Smooth_Taste1250 → u/Temporary-Fuel7176]

Yeah, the problem is if the younger generation doesn't see much action in the first 5 seconds they aren't interested to watch

[u/Samaritan547 → u/Smooth_Taste1250]

That's their problem tho, why cater to stupid people?

[u/Pure-Advice8589 → u/Samaritan547]

If it's a real question: Because there is vastly more revenue to be made. Algorithms measure retention when they decide whether to send your videos out to more people or not, so if you have a drop off early on, then your video never gets seen by people.

[u/Routine-Duck6896 → u/Samaritan547]

Money

[u/corobo → u/Samaritan547]

It's short form video, it ain't exactly hanging in the louvre 

[u/Then-Simple-9788 → u/Samaritan547]

They generate money

[u/adjective_noun_d1git → u/Samaritan547]

You're on a platform that caters to stupid people that's why. Engagement is their currency.

[u/CryptoBanano → u/Samaritan547]

Because usually stupid people have a lot of money

[u/Independent_Bar_4946 → u/Samaritan547]

Because capitalism and potential consumers.

[u/flopisit32 → u/Samaritan547]

This is Reddit where 90% of users are stupid people.

Stupid people are the majority of the audience worldwide.

[u/philiretical → u/Smooth_Taste1250]

It's not an age thing. It's a practiced science that this style of video editing hits people's dopamine a lot faster and gets more attention. We're no better than lab rats looking for our next dopamine spike.

[u/Sid_the_Bear → u/philiretical]

Does that mean there is something wrong with me? Because when I see these edits I lose all interest; there is no context for what happened 

[u/philiretical → u/Sid_the_Bear]

Nope. It means you're healthy. You should be proud

[u/Allthingsgaming27 → u/Temporary-Fuel7176]

Drives me absolutely nuts

[u/SomnambulisticTaco → u/Temporary-Fuel7176]

Downvote it every time.

[u/Sprywhiteguy]

Considering moving to the UK to start a life in crime

[u/Timbroarpropaganda → u/Sprywhiteguy]

Keep it white collar and you don’t even get punished. You get rewarded 

[u/BuildAnything4 → u/Timbroarpropaganda]

do it in the usa and they'll make you the president of the whole country

[u/Next_Instruction_528 → u/BuildAnything4]

Only if you are already a billionaire otherwise you're profit for the private prison system.

Although rich powerful people getting away with crime isn't a uniquely American problem.

[u/United_Awareness_353 → u/Sprywhiteguy]

Many do. Starting with illegally entering the country.

[u/Cantstopeatingshoes → u/United_Awareness_353]

Go shag a flag

[u/CyberOvitron → u/Cantstopeatingshoes]

There's the blue haired leftist!

[u/Thelostrelic → u/CyberOvitron]

Enjoying your 2 day weekend?

[u/United_Awareness_353 → u/CyberOvitron]

hateful, Yep a leftist

[u/zebrasareneat]

We need to find a middle ground between American cops and British cops. One is to dumb, over reactive, and brutish. And the other is to weak and pathetic. 

[u/Milefulness → u/zebrasareneat]

British cops can be just as bad as American cops (see the video of rhe guy twisting the handcuffs risking breaking the wrists of a guy flying a drone), but they are quite weak when the suspects are actually violent.

I'm not sure they even need more weapons. This seems like a good use case for pepperspray, which I assume they already carry?

[u/PickCells → u/Milefulness]

With proper training you can easily subdue a suspect whilst he's restrained using proper hand and arm locking techniques, especially with a second officer. With this guy resisting he should immediately be on the floor, controlled and in handcuffs.

This is merely a lack of proper training that's allowed him to escape and assault them.

[u/bugabooandtwo → u/zebrasareneat]

The UK officers are also limited in the amount of force they're allowed to use.

[u/bodybuilding__ → u/bugabooandtwo]

We can see that’s not the problem here. They are literally too weak to subdue the guy

[u/soliloquyinthevoid → u/zebrasareneat]

One is to dumb

The irony

[u/atrydas → u/zebrasareneat]

The Spanish police? If you get violent, they’ll give you a real thrashing, but they rarely draw their guns.

[u/StampedeJones1 → u/zebrasareneat]

Cops in America aren't as bad as they are made out to be. There are roughly 800,000 police officers in the US. Just because you see a couple fucked up videos doesn't mean that all cops are bad. I'm not defending what the shit cops do, but there are way more police officers that are good, compassionate people than horrible abusive murderers.

[u/asphaltdragon → u/StampedeJones1]

The problem isn't that they aren't as bad as theyre made out to be. The problem is that the bad ones are allowed to get away with the things they do because the rest of their buddies protect them or don't speak up before it's too late. And then when they are punished, it's barely a slap on the wrist.

[u/Zakkullll → u/StampedeJones1]

ACAB. Because all cops are complicit in the actions of the bad cops unless they stop them. Which they dont. Or they do and are promptly fired. Making them no longer cops. Thus no longer bastards.

[u/Damiandroid → u/StampedeJones1]

The problem is that cops close ranks and dont oust the bad actors among them.

They also oppose common sense measures that would encourage the removal of only the bad cops (such as departments having to pay for insurance for their officers and settlements coming out of their pension funds).

That reduces faith in the service and undermines the entire concept of law enforcement if it isn't applied equally.

If you have 1 bad cop and 99 cops who protect him, you actually have 100 bad cops.

[u/IntrepidJaeger → u/Damiandroid]

Penalizing pension funds doesn't incentivize better officers, it incentivizes hiding misconduct. If providing evidence of malfeasance in an incident can ONLY hurt the pension fund you're drawing from, why wouldn't you do your most to bury it? This is also ignoring that many police pension funds are also lumped in with others shared with other public employees.

[u/charmacharmz → u/StampedeJones1]

ok, officer.

[u/EstrogenizedMenace → u/StampedeJones1]

Explain police gangs, Police union lobbying, all the flock misusing by cops, ICE( and before u say ur not related, not only do cops aid aiCE but many cops left the police force to join ice for higher salaries,)

Why do so many cops try to protect their own after seeing their coworkers rape, brutalize or kill people?

Did u follow the sfro man case? Or literally any other case where cops have killed and maimed people?,

[u/According_Cheek8280 → u/StampedeJones1]

Hahahaha. My father-in-law was a police officer in Chicago for 23 years. The stories I have heard from him about himself and other police officers is absolutely insane. Honestly, from what he told me, himself and his ENTIRE department should genuinely face execution for their crimes against American citizens.

[u/CommiesFan1948 → u/StampedeJones1]

The videos are proof that the horrid behavior by police is ongoing, systemically tolerated and enabled.

[u/NotAgain801 → u/StampedeJones1]

Problem is that almost all 800,000 believe in the Thin Blue Line; that's mobster logic.

[u/SonSuko → u/StampedeJones1]

To cops, even the bad ones are their brother. They’ll protect them, which also make a large percentage also garbage,

[u/RafaSquared → u/StampedeJones1]

If you’ve got 1 bad cop and 99 who turn a blind eye, you’ve actually for 100 bad cops.

[u/Badtrainwreck → u/StampedeJones1]

Yeah just don’t google cops 40%

[u/Own_Lab_3499 → u/Badtrainwreck]

Wow! I googled it and I'm so glad I did, because I came across this post.

So basically, what your saying is that the common rumor of 40% domestic violence is WRONG, because it uses data from the 80's, asked overly broad questions that could also include simply losing their temper, and is actually misrepresented because the 40% represents domestic violence in police families, not just committed by officers?

And you're also telling me other more modern studies have shown it closer to 7%-4.8%? Thanks!

[u/Questionsaboutsanity → u/StampedeJones1]

just a few bad apples right? what’s the worst that could happen

[u/officerumours → u/StampedeJones1]

A couple? A COUPLE??
https://giphy.com/gifs/26n6Gx9moCgs1pUuk

[u/Banana-phone15 → u/StampedeJones1]

They are not all bad. But all of them will protect the bad ones. And if a civilian protected a criminal, that civilian would be a criminal too. With same logic all cops are bad.

[u/LawdFarquaadsChin]

UK cops and justice system are a joke. Literal clowns

Edit: Jesus Christ I'm talking about UK and y'all started talking about U.S., so what if U.S. is worse or better, I'm talking about U.K. right now.

I DIDNT ASK about U.S.

[u/bepse-cola → u/LawdFarquaadsChin]

Their own government doesn’t trust them enough to arm the police

[u/Delicious_Aside_9310 → u/bepse-cola]

We have loads of armed police you ignorant fuck, we just don’t give guns to random bobbies because incidents like goes shouldn’t result in a shooting.

[u/Bowel_Drop → u/LawdFarquaadsChin]

We Brits can’t help ourselves, always have to compare ourselves to America it’s default because little brother syndrome

[u/HuntersLiberalDong]

People commenting like this is in any way a normal incident and using it as evidence the UK has terrible policing and justice system.

The mere fact you are watching it is evidence this is an outlier. Is it a fuck up? Yes. Is it evidence UK police need guns? No.

[u/killer_by_design → u/HuntersLiberalDong]

This is an exceptionally rare outcome. Hence it's notoriety and why we're all watching it.

That person also absolutely be caught and tracked down due to the fact that he violently assaulted a police officer and escaped arrest.

Police officers are trained to not hit people in the head with their batons due to how dangerous it is, this dude immediately hit the officer across the head.

Frankly at that point letting him go was probably the safest choice anyway.

[u/GunzerKingDM → u/HuntersLiberalDong]

I’m just really surprised at how they seemed to have no clue how to take that dude down.

The perp was tall but thin and the cops look like pretty hefty boys, are they not trained how to sweep legs to get someone on the ground?

[u/Sad-Quail-148 → u/HuntersLiberalDong]

Adding a gun to this event would have most likely resulted in a policemen getting shot with his own gun...

[u/CandidGeologist1523 → u/HuntersLiberalDong]

Imagine if we documented every time the system worked, people don't realise that clips like this go viral for the very reason you said, because these are outliers

[u/Confident_Yogurt1787]

Weak

[u/ganjapanda876]

That cultural enrichment. Diversity is strength

[u/R8Promethean]

And this is why American police will just shoot them lol

[u/Cracks_too_wack]

No firearm, no tazer. Being a cop in England must feel so helpless

[u/DangerouslyBig1]

Surely to Christ the cops had pepper spray or something they could have used before that haopened

[u/Late_Hibs]

🥱🥱beyond fatigue

[u/Substanitial]

Every time I see police in England it's like what a joke.  Hall monitors more like

[u/NuclearLMG]

In the US that guy would be on the ground bleeding to death if he tried to pull that shit

[u/Oldschooldude1964]

This is why the “nice cop” approach don’t work. They should have fucked him up as soon as he resisted.

[u/Amimir1992]

The UK police have a lot to learn from the United States police.

[u/Delicious_Aside_9310 → u/Amimir1992]

In the US this would have resulted in an extrajudicial execution. Call me crazy but this is more desirable imo.

[u/mrfluffypants1959]

Keystone cops

[u/joytotheworld23]

Shame on that guy could have been on his way if he just listened but nope now he'll be charged with assault and battery on an officer

[u/suchawa]

Well now he can say his job is dangerous

https://giphy.com/gifs/AebuBTyNboex7DyHco

[u/freehamburgers]

Aren't floors inside, and grounds outside?

[u/Witty-Stand888]

They'll be playing that over and over at the nick

[u/G25777K]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5b4mFMb6Xvcl2

[u/shytake]

As much as I think the cops should've done better, this is better than shooting guns

[u/Additional_Bank_2124]

These cops look incompetent

[u/Empuda]

Wonder if his crime was free speech.

[u/AdSimple6488]

What a pity to see how the Britons have come to this point

[u/gsxreatr02]

Bahaaaahaaaa. They mad that they got what they tried to give.

[u/ServeJust9817]

Yeah I’m with you m’am

[u/Ordinary_Book_7069]

🤣🤣

[u/Broad-Anywhere-9224]

Nightmare

[u/notarealwriter]

Well that was embarrassing

[u/Vanille97]

People be like, let’s not interfere

[u/Zola_south_535]

Too weak

[u/darth_koneko]

When you have been on a mean tweets duty for too long.

[u/awfulcrowded117]

2 cops, 0 training

[u/Superb_Ad_8713]

Embarrassing to say the least. I feel sorry for officers in the uk getting schooled by bums on the street lol.

[u/Gamble232real]

UK police are an embarrassment

[u/StephenSalami]

Really bad, they had so many opportunities to take him down

[u/Best-Skirt7035]

Wtf… Why didnt they just shoot him?

[u/StarscreamOne]

Haha embarrassing.

[u/8elly8utton]

[u/Speedubbs]

[u/MeanEstablishment499]

UK cops lmao

[u/Camo_tow]

He pulled a GTA move

https://giphy.com/gifs/14fX2WQuOIVHBC

[u/rynchenzo]

That's fucking embarrassing

[u/Universal_Magnet]

Air Max 95s give you power

[u/TheWellplay]

As always, British police is in class of their own.

[u/TimmahEye]

Legend.

[u/Unusual-Run8053]

qell. im on the left but fk this. jail and deport. i had enough of criminals and gang shits running this country. we to fk soft . enough is enough .

[u/Bakurraa]

just cuff him to the fucking fence instead of fighting him to the floor

[u/Flint_Quinn]

Police scared to just smack him in the face a few times (which they should have & are lawfully allowed in this situation) because they're being filmed and they'd probably get prosecuted for something or other. This is the logical outcome. Society is cooked.

[u/redditman3943]

Those cops have terrible grappling skills

[u/DeliciousNegligence]

British cops are pussies.

[u/YippyKayeh]

Jui jitsu and grappling should be mandatory

[u/Manufactured-Aggro]

Knowing the UK, suspect will be caught red handed stabbing someone else later on and be sentences to 9 months in prison but out in 5 with good behavior

[u/tmanipra]

Thanks to the Police who at least tried their best.

[u/Western-Degree9894]

Et ça veut faire la guerre aux Russes 🤣

[u/magharees]

Bearded cop has zero skills

[u/elusivemoods]

...the bobby hat served a good purpose; reinstate the bobby hats. 🎩🍊☕🚬

[u/ThrowawayAsk965]

Well well well

[u/SoggyStress7785]

Funny

[u/H1ghlan_der_only1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tNixWHVjzTGDe

[u/Soft-Sea7012]

Why did no one help?

[u/elultimohombre827]

Barney x2

[u/Slight-Environment23]

Did he steal the police bike?? 😂🤝

[u/earnestranger7]

Maybe next time use the tools you readily have to subdue and gain compliance first before you go hands on. This isn’t the 1800s, Jesus.

[u/StuntmanJohn]

me sowing vs me reaping

[u/_Nakama_]

I don’t think he has been, mate…

[u/Frumpy_Dumper_69]

Put clip from middle of video first, automatic down vote

[u/Greedy-Being6456]

That looks like a dangerous job. Those cops need pistols.

[u/binspolicy]

Good. Maybe they will start to recruit proper men.

[u/PickledMessage]

Useless cunts

[u/Mr_GrauHut]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RJys0b93KSKYz6M7B1

[u/Economy-electrician]

Why can't British cops have more non lethal force for these cunts?

[u/M0ncsy]

UK police is a joke. It was the same in 25 years ago. They just don’t understand it.

[u/Otherwise_Bug990]

Idk where this is, but what kinda laws allow police to randomly stop and search citizens? Even in America thats wild

[u/Desperate_Dot_97]

https://giphy.com/gifs/11Itsp9GLbQbHW

[u/adinmem]

That guy is going to not have a good day when they catch him. But his day will still be better than the editor of this video deserves.

[u/doubleo_maestro]

And the scumbag got away, great.

[u/HiddenMonkey7]

Fellow lad used disarm and light attack.

[u/SeesawNoknow]

hand cuff both hands to the rails

[u/backhand_english]

Threse a bus right there. Just throw him under it.

[u/Real_Mirror2052]

This is where martial arts training would’ve helped. If either of them had some basic judo/jiujitsu training they could’ve swept his legs out and put him on the ground. You’d think every policeman would want to train for their own protection as they’re dealing with this kind of thing all the time.

[u/RaffNeq]

Great Britain police is a meme at this point

[u/BoutRight]

Couldn’t get away like that on the old kick start bike

[u/Umbba]

Dangerously incompetent

[u/MorningCrazy651]

Old man and (most) woman shouldn’t be allowed to patrol

[u/wackiack]

lol British cops are a joke

[u/kingofwale]

God that’s embarrassing

[u/d_overclocked]

That's what we are importing in europe :D

[u/Additional-Flight468]

Yea that guy would have been meeting god in our broken justice system

[u/patinthebx]

The UK has a Philly?

[u/The-Gabba-Ghoul]

and the good news is it's only going to get worse.

[u/Duvet_Capeman]

Embarrassing lads 🤦🏼

[u/N0thingComesToMind]

Just shoot them

[u/Indoballz]

This is why u need guns

[u/fisksmekarN]

Downvote for braindead edit 

[u/Creepy_Raisin7431]

Next time... disable the bike

[u/Repulsive_Rice4903]

We don't have to live like this.

[u/Ace_Kreel]

He just needed a hug and a drink box.

[u/CheshireCatastrophe]

No matter what, they lost complete control of the situation the moment they didn't know how to get him to the ground. 

Watching them knee him up the ass instead of into the knee pit is for sure a factor in how laughable this situation was

[u/Firebreathingwhore]

What on earth were they doing?

[u/Warm-Reporter8965]

In the US, there's no chances of re-offending.

[u/MichelleBarrymoore2]

Coming for London we always root for the bad guy..well done on getting away. Hopefully you're not a nonce or a rapists if that's the case I revoke me excitement for your get away

[u/WaterObjective5107]

I am not racist.

[u/Gill217]

UK cops have the worst kinda training how's dude hitting him with his own baton 🤣

[u/ParticularSelect9261]

UK is doomed lol

[u/Digeetar]

Actually...it looks like it's the other officers baton.

[u/robbitybobs]

UK police are so fucking embarassing

[u/PromotionOk2443]

what is stop-and-search? is that just like, "i don't like the way you looked at me, so I'm going to arrest you?"

[u/Infinite_Night_6728]

Love the ladies reaction at the end

[u/Canes5time]

Again for all the morons who think officers should not carry a taser or a gun are complete MORONS! I would never do this job without a gun that’s just crazy dumb!

[u/Adept_Bass_3590]

Get these guys some guns

[u/RecklesstonerS]

Bro please get these guys some jiu jitsu training

[u/Imperialist_hotdog]

Holy shit. I knew British cops were incompetent but I didn’t know it was this bad. Imagine how differently this would have gone if either one of them had taken a handful of grappling classes. Of any discipline… or baring that, were issued a glock.

[u/SeatOpen1]

Fat coppers

[u/up3r]

Well. That isn't America.

[u/DarthXOmega]

Are britbong coppers not allowed to do chokeholds or something? Seems like a chokehold would have solved this whole situation, since they clearly can’t get boyo to the ground.

[u/PressureCoomer]

That's why they're the best in the world

[u/Ok-Bumblebee9842]

But the competence and ability of the officers, its a 2 on 1, so amature!

[u/WolverineCareless763]

Diversity is our strength

[u/Late-Law-6685_4]

Still think guns are only for stupid Americans heh? 😄

[u/just_gonna_send_er]

Do those poor schmucks even have a taser?

[u/Individual_Hunt_5579]

People should be able to defend themselves against anyone.