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[+] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    There definitely will be. But I don't know it. 'Reasonable person test' will surely make up a part of it.

    Edit: Found this, not the kind of legal test a judge would rely on, but a good indication.

    While it is not abundantly clear what determines ‘excessive force’ during an arrest, there appears to be a distinct relationship between the force a police officer may be permitted to use, and the behaviour of the person being arrested — whether the person is obstructing an officer in the line of duty, defying arrest, or being physically violent.

    Andrew Williams Lawyer

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah... right...

    "These are children, they haven't learnt behavioural and emotional control yet. Their brains aren't developed.

    And then when they're older it's inter-generational trauma, an excuse for all seasons!

    "There were many ways he could restrain her that would not have involved the level of personal touch and force that we witnessed in the video," Dr McGowan-Jones said.

    Feel free to get out of your desk job and help out then, different world when you're being punched in the head by feral teenagers

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