Fake

[poliphilo]

A video appeared yesterday- shot on a phone as so much news footage is these days- which showed a middle-aged woman being arrested by three policeman in Bournemouth for the Covid-era "crime" of sitting on a public bench. I viewed it on a MSN site. "Now that's a real abuse of power," I thought. And I was going to blog about it- but at the last minute some sixth sense stopped me posting what I'd written. Just as well, because the" cops" and their "victim" turn out to have been members of an anti-lockdown group. As Ailz said this morning, "Real police wouldn't have made such a horlicks of putting the handcuffs on."

It was a very simple fake, nothing deep about it, no expensive set-up or digital trickery involved- but it had us fooled.

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[cmcmck]

But since it's not 'illegal' anyway...........

It was for five minutes during the first lot before they realised how stupid it made them look.

That said, they've definitely gone too far for most people now!

[poliphilo]

Chris Whitty is threatening us with even tighter restrictions and more police powers. I think he's over-reaching himself.

[cmcmck]

I think so too- many of us are already at the end of our tethers and that includes some of us living in nice, sane rural places!

They need to concentrate on the vaccine programme and undoing the ludicrous amounts of NHS red tape, not on bullying people who are doing their best

Cracking down won't make those who aren't trying try any harder and will simply punish those who are trying to help.