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Xai  
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2020-07-05 1:00:20 PM  
This is very disconcerting and the IPCC needs to do a full report on this.
 
TomDooley  
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2020-07-05 1:09:38 PM  
Cops should not be doing traffic stops.  And selling weed should not be illegal.
 
AngryTeacher  
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2020-07-05 2:19:41 PM  
I smelled weed is the cops' get out of jail free card.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:05:41 PM  
Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.
 
wejash  
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2020-07-05 3:41:07 PM  
They had to ride his tail to get close enough to smell....auto exhaust...that smells just like weed.
 
StatelyGreekAutomaton  
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2020-07-05 3:46:53 PM  
On one hand the cops are absolute liars, but on the other hand a 30 year old in the film industry that claims to have never touched drugs?
 
Visual Howlaround Title Sequence [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:48:34 PM  

Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.


Wow
 
trappedspirit  
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2020-07-05 3:49:18 PM  
In the UK you can refuse to get out of your car until you are given a full description of what is going to happen to you?  And I thought we had freedoms in America.
 
Enigmamf [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:51:18 PM  

Visual Howlaround Title Sequence: Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.

Wow


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Bandito King [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:52:11 PM  

wejash: They had to ride his tail to get close enough to smell....auto exhaust...that smells just like weed.


You must smoke some nasty ditch weed.
 
MattyBlast [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:52:41 PM  
Hopefully this incident shatters the offending officers' hopes of returning to work.
 
Mantour [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:52:48 PM  

Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.


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Autoerotic Defenestration  
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2020-07-05 3:54:46 PM  
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WTFDYW [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 3:56:39 PM  

MattyBlast: Hopefully this incident shatters the offending officers' hopes of returning to work.


Why do farkers keep giving them the respect of calling them officers? They are cops and pigs.
 
willwall  
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2020-07-05 4:18:55 PM  
"when an officer smashed in the window of Ryan Colaço's car, after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs, they did not know he was driving home from a TV interview in which he told of institutional racism in the police after being stopped and searched the week before"

Sooo your excuse is that you didn't know it was a person who did an interview, you were just randomly smashing out a window? Seriously?
 
khatores  
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2020-07-05 4:19:36 PM  
Groundhog Day For A Black Man
Youtube eEMIUy_ySA4
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 4:21:15 PM  
FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste  
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2020-07-05 4:22:05 PM  

willwall: "when an officer smashed in the window of Ryan Colaço's car, after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs, they did not know he was driving home from a TV interview in which he told of institutional racism in the police after being stopped and searched the week before"

Sooo your excuse is that you didn't know it was a person who did an interview, you were just randomly smashing out a window? Seriously?


"This was an act of random malicious violence, not reprisal. Please adjust your news articles."
 
the voice of raisin  
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2020-07-05 4:24:05 PM  

Xai: This is very disconcerting and the IPCC needs to do a full report on this.


6 months later..."We investigated ourselves and found that we shouldn't have done that and we are committed to not doing it again to this specific individual for ar least 3 more months.  The officers involved have been given a stern warning and a solid finger-wag."
 
scanman61  
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2020-07-05 4:25:42 PM  

Resident Muslim: FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.


It's like "resisting arrest" with no other charges.

Now pick up that can....
 
the voice of raisin  
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2020-07-05 4:25:54 PM  

trappedspirit: In the UK you can refuse to get out of your car until you are given a full description of what is going to happen to you?  And I thought we had freedoms in America.


apparently not
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 4:28:54 PM  

scanman61: Resident Muslim: FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.

It's like "resisting arrest" with no other charges.

Now pick up that can....


Ive said it before I'll say it again:
No charge of "resisting arrest" should stand on its own.

/they'll probably invent new charges
//"attacking officer's fist with their face"
///"defacing public property" when they left skin on the pavement after being dragged
 
the voice of raisin  
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2020-07-05 4:33:34 PM  

Resident Muslim: scanman61: Resident Muslim: FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.

It's like "resisting arrest" with no other charges.

Now pick up that can....

Ive said it before I'll say it again:
No charge of "resisting arrest" should stand on its own.

/they'll probably invent new charges
//"attacking officer's fist with their face"
///"defacing public property" when they left skin on the pavement after being dragged


"I shot him cause he ran!"
"Why did he run?"
"Probably because I was pointing a gun at him"
----

"Anyone who runs is a (perp)"
"Anyone who stands still is a well-trained (perp)"
 
Noah_Tall [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 4:35:08 PM  

Resident Muslim: FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.


In England police don't need a reason to stop anybody at any time. It does away with that whole pesky come up with an excuse thing.
 
Albino Squid  
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2020-07-05 4:35:57 PM  
If a cop "smells marijuana" once without in being found, that should be the end of their policing career. Because in any rational world, that would invalidate any searches made after "smelling marijuana" in the future. And if you can't stitch up random drivers, what good are they on the force?
 
links136  
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2020-07-05 4:39:16 PM  

StatelyGreekAutomaton: On one hand the cops are absolute liars, but on the other hand a 30 year old in the film industry that claims to have never touched drugs?


The film industry is all about privilege.  Which is why you generally need to be a suburban white male if your not an actor.

It's all connection based, and I've seen some good camera guys who were absolute straight A lameasses, smart, but I would totally believe they never touched drugs, we know the type of guy who would never touch drugs but would drink.

I'm not going to say it's common, but it's far more believable than hearing about a touring musicians has never touched drugs.

I mean The just hand them to you when your liked at a party.  Who really cares about the lighting dude?  Anyone?  Does it matter if they're a minority?  No one would see them so we wouldn't get credit for hiring a token minority.
 
wejash  
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2020-07-05 4:46:05 PM  

Bandito King: wejash: They had to ride his tail to get close enough to smell....auto exhaust...that smells just like weed.

You must smoke some nasty ditch weed.


The London cops do, anyway.
 
BarryJV [BareFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 4:57:17 PM  

the voice of raisin: ."We investigated ourselves and found that we shouldn't have done that and we are committed to not doing it again to this specific individual for ar least 3 more months. The officers involved have been given a stern warning and a solid finger-wag."


The IPCC are not the police.
 
CrazyCurt  
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2020-07-05 5:05:02 PM  
The British have a psychotic hatred of cannabis. If anyone wants to know where America's nutcase prohibitionists get their marching orders it's from England. I guess the Hashishim ( the original assassins ) really freaked them out down to the genetic level.

/ The put the colon in colonial.
 
Visual Howlaround Title Sequence [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 5:06:12 PM  

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Enigmamf: Visual Howlaround Title Sequence: Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.

Wow

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Satire is dead, washed, embalmed, and lying out on a mortuary slab.


Big time
 
the voice of raisin  
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2020-07-05 5:14:27 PM  

BarryJV: the voice of raisin: ."We investigated ourselves and found that we shouldn't have done that and we are committed to not doing it again to this specific individual for ar least 3 more months. The officers involved have been given a stern warning and a solid finger-wag."

The IPCC are not the police.


I'll believe that there are serious repercussions when they occur in a timely and meaningful manner.
 
macadamnut  
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2020-07-05 5:31:00 PM  

Resident Muslim: FTA:
"A spokesperson for City of London police said: "On Friday 29 May 2020, at approximately 4.30pm on Cannon Street in the City of London, a man, 30, was arrested for obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty, after he failed to comply with directions from officers regarding a drugs search. He has since been released under investigation."

I don't see any mention of why he was stopped IN THE FIRST PLACE.


Because they had absolutely no idea who he was or where he was coming from. Same reason they stopped Sandra Bland.
 
Angsto2  
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2020-07-05 5:36:52 PM  
"Man on way home from TV interview about police racism has his car window smashed in by - you guessed it - the police"
Whew, I thought it was going to be Frank Stallone
 
Electrify  
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2020-07-05 5:46:48 PM  
Any British Farkers care to give a prediction of the outcome to this? Will the officer be reprimanded, fired, or charged for his actions? Will the police voluntarily repair his car, or is he going to have to sue it out of them?
 
flondrix  
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2020-07-05 6:01:15 PM  
When an officer smashed in the window of Ryan Colaço's car, after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs, they did not know he was driving home from a TV interview in which he told of institutional racism in the police after being stopped and searched the week before.

Like hell they didn't.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 6:06:17 PM  

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Enigmamf: Visual Howlaround Title Sequence: Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.

Wow

[mattfedder.com image 318x237]

Satire is dead, washed, embalmed, and lying out on a mortuary slab.


Another casualty of the leftist fascist Marxists, no doubt.
 
caddisfly  
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2020-07-05 6:16:10 PM  
That was terrifying.
 
Al Tsheimers  
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2020-07-05 7:39:28 PM  

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Enigmamf: Visual Howlaround Title Sequence: Diogenes: Maybe he shouldn't have blabbed all over TV.  You know what they say:  snitches get treated like black people at the hands of police.

Wow

[mattfedder.com image 318x237]

Satire is dead, washed, embalmed, and lying out on a mortuary slab.


This is 2020. No Hollywood script is too ridiculous anymore.
 
Sim Tree [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 8:08:47 PM  

wejash: They had to ride his tail to get close enough to smell....auto exhaust...that smells just like weed.


So they are legitimately trying to claim they smelled weed *through the closed window* of his car, into the *closed window* of their own car, *while both cars were moving 60 MPH down the highway 100 years apart* EVEN THOUGH they found absolutely no weed during the search ... AND THEN ARRESTED HIM *ANYWAY*! Hell, even if they did find drugs that could have been thrown out 'as fruit of the poisonous tree' from such a bogus search, let alone NOT finding drugs.
 
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2020-07-05 8:25:06 PM  
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stuffy  
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2020-07-05 8:35:49 PM  
News flash: Cops got TVs too. They don't like when to talk bad about them.
 
lovely_filth  
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2020-07-05 8:44:52 PM  
Motherf*ckers. Add me the NFW this was a coincidence crowd. I would bet NOT SHIAT is going to happen to the thugs & their victim will be told to go f*ck his self by the State.
 
NephilimNexus  
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2020-07-05 9:17:15 PM  
they did not know he was driving home from a TV interview in which he told of institutional racism in the police

Oh they knew alright - why do you think they targeted him in particular?  This was their retaliation.
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 9:24:00 PM  

WTFDYW: MattyBlast: Hopefully this incident shatters the offending officers' hopes of returning to work.

Why do farkers keep giving them the respect of calling them officers? They are cops and pigs.


Yeah, it seems the main advantage that your average Brit has over the average American is that at least the police tend not to be armed. But they'll still find ways to kill you if they want to.
 
jrg1199  
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2020-07-06 1:49:41 AM  
What the FARK is wrong with all these damn cops????  FFS Police Chiefs, get your farking departments in order out there, I am so sick of hearing about this senseless shiat they keep pulling.
 
kendelrio  
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2020-07-06 8:41:20 AM  

Sim Tree: wejash: They had to ride his tail to get close enough to smell....auto exhaust...that smells just like weed.

So they are legitimately trying to claim they smelled weed *through the closed window* of his car, into the *closed window* of their own car, *while both cars were moving 60 MPH down the highway 100 years apart* EVEN THOUGH they found absolutely no weed during the search ... AND THEN ARRESTED HIM *ANYWAY*! Hell, even if they did find drugs that could have been thrown out 'as fruit of the poisonous tree' from such a bogus search, let alone NOT finding drugs.


Welcome to England. No Bill of Rights, no Constitution, no Dental Care and no gunz
 
moto-geek  
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2020-07-06 9:00:38 AM  
He spent a lot of time talking about wanting to come out of the car without actually coming out of the car. Cops, even the rare good apple, often have a problem with people refusing a lawful order. I can't really blame the guy though. Put a stink bomb in the car next time and see what the pigs smell.
 
BarryJV [BareFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-06 6:44:21 PM  

Electrify: Any British Farkers care to give a prediction of the outcome to this? Will the officer be reprimanded, fired, or charged for his actions? Will the police voluntarily repair his car, or is he going to have to sue it out of them?


Hard to say. Under any previous Prime Minister this would have lead to a full enquiry and likely serious action taken against police*. Johnson doesn't give a damn and Priti Patel is one part idiot to two parts authoritarian jackass.

Theresa May even referred to the need to look into this when she made her acceptance speech on becoming PM, but she never had the opportunity to do much about it with such a divided parliament.

*If it was found to be true. Similar reports from a married couple of atheletes suggest that the Met is being heavy handed with its stop and search and this is not a one off.
 
billstewart  
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2020-07-07 2:05:14 AM  
IBarryJV:
Hard to say. Under any previous Prime Minister this would have lead to a full enquiry and likely serious action taken against police*. Johnson doesn't give a damn and Priti Patel is one part idiot to two parts authoritarian jackass.

Theresa May even referred to the need to look into this when she made her acceptance speech on becoming PM, but she never had the opportunity to do much about it with such a divided parliament.

If Theresa May had been serious about it, and any Tories were willing to go along, they could have proposed a bill and Labour and the LibDems would have joined her.

One thing that really frustrates US cops about states that have legalized marijuana, even medically but especially recreationally, is that "smelled cannabis" is no longer an excuse for a search, and searching a car because the taillight was burned out was never credible.
 
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