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UK Riots - What's your opinion?
[MAF]mooman:
i'd rather not be afraid of the police tbh. some of the stuff you read about american cops where they just go crazy and shoot someone.. eek
[MAF]Snoopy:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC2CJC4KtS8[/youtube]
haha i love how the police just said fuck it and swarmed in. I MARKED OUT
[MAF]Snoopy:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCVl-lLcBs&feature=related[/youtube]
[MAF]Epoxi:
Not that I'm saying the UK doesn't have issues, but I think the UK is one of the fairest (if not the fairest) country in the world.
When it comes to the government I have had problems with the US when they stopped us for several hours just for racial profiling, and my father has had similar issues in France, in India and Mexico the policemen will stop you and force you to give a bribe or threaten to arrest you after planting evidence (e.g. put a beer bottle in your car and say you were "drink driving"). In Italy it is impossible to get a job unless you know someone in the business, and I know government officials who have had their house redecorated after accepting proposals from construction companies: everyone is so corrupt.
As far as I am aware, I have never experienced any issue even close to this in the UK, if I have had any problem with the UK it's that the police are not strong enough: for example when I was attacked by a group of people for no reason and ended up in hospital, no one was ever even caught because I could not identify them (kind of hard in the dark when your first encounter with them is a punch to the face).
All I'm saying is: I invite all UK citizens to take a step back and realise how lucky we are. We may not have the best economy at the moment but even those who are unemployed are still being fed: many of the people you see in the riots are wearing £100 tracksuits and communicating on smart-phones to their friends.
b00tsyou:
--- Quote from: [MAF]Snoops on August 09, 2011, 04:21:24 pm ---it would own if we had a police force like usa :P
they take no shit over there lol
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remember rodney king !
police brutalities caused riots of 92 in LA
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