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Jonathan Marsh, an officer with London's Metropolitan Police, has been found guilty of assault for punching shopkeeper Rasike Attanayake. Attanayake had called emergency dispatch to report a man damaging his shop and threatening to kill people. Upon arriving, Marsh knocked Attanayake to the ground, punched him in the back of the head, handcuffed him, and placed him in the back of a patrol car before figuring out he was not the suspect.

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[Vernon Depner]

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[R Mac]

Don’t wanna be treated like a thug, don’t be a shopkeeper like a thug.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fog of war innit.

[mad.casual]

I blame Attanayake for not being clear that he wasn't requesting that someone else come to his store, damage property, and threaten to kill people.

[Zipcreature]

Can’t win ‘em all I suppose.

[Longtobefree]

For all goods and services, including cops:

Fast, cheap, good quality; chose any two.

[markm23]

Except when it comes to cops. Then you're likely to get none of those qualities, and you don't get to choose.

[mad.casual]

Still beats getting your store looted and your car set on fire by a country mile.

[Vernon Depner]

The cops don't show up until AFTER those things happen.

[LIBertrans]

Qualified immunity anyone?
Cops are required to enforce politician-written laws that murder, enslave and rob with the same equanimity and aplomb as laws that protect less impecunious individuals from rights-violating initiation of force. Passing up a chance to vote for an actual (non-Austrian) rights-respecting LP candidate (an endangered species) is leveraged effective demand for the former kind of laws to th detriment of the latter. Remember that at election time.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Marsh knocked Attanayake to the ground, punched him in the back of the head, handcuffed him, and placed him in the back of a patrol car before figuring out he was not the suspect.

If this is the London Metropolitan police, I’m not convinced they had the wrong guy. Remember, this is the same police that when called over during a dispute between a guy playing a piano and no-shit Chinese communist operatives telling him to stop filming… in London, the Metropolitan police sided with the Chinese agents.