Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Saw this disturbing video last night and am so totally amazed that under immense provocation, the policeman remained so calm, did the minimum to protect himself and just looked p'd off that his car had been petrol bombed


In America, the response would have been the disproportionate use of retaliatory force and at least 1 dead protester...

Guy deserves a medal

Tidgy

O so its ok to fire bomb a car then is it?

Sorry but there just as bad, no excuse for it.

ALi-B

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Well it was a Scenic II...probably glad to be rid of it

markjmd

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The truly astonishing thing here is that the idiots running riot on the streets aren't immediately thrown into the back of police (or army) wagons and banged-up without trial. Bear in mind that France is technically still in a state of emergency (it was never lifted after being imposed in the wake of the Paris attacks last November), and under those terms the authorities have full powers to lock anyone taking part in an unauthorized demonstration straight up with no questions asked.

alcazar

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Funny how this sort of thing is being effectively hidden by our own media, isn't it?

lozgti1

Well,despite being a bit of a pacifist,my reaction would have been less gentle :-)

mrtheedge2u2

Setting fire to a car with people in it......why is the scumbag not being arrested and charged with attempted murder??

BMWhere?

Its on Sky news! How exactly is it being hidden?

neil-h

Looked more like a flair IMO.

hodgy0_2

its on labour reforms

so nothing to do with fuzzy wuzzies

pimmo2000

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the policeman had no real option .. had he tried to fight the crowd are pathetic animals would have attacked back. Wish it had been America one less arsehole.

Uncle Creepy

First, that copper is a boss. Somebody petrol bombed my car? No big deal - I'm still gonna get out at my own pace when I'm ready. Somebody's trying to strike me repeatedly with a pole? Keep trying, son - I'll just raise my arms to protect my head.

Next, I suspect the scumbags in this video don't actually work, couldn't care less about labour reforms, and are simply using the occasion as an excuse to be scumbags.

joz8968

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Ha ha. That cool-as-**** cop reminds me of a 90s Mortal Kombat character sprite.

Awesomeness.

daviee

showed great restrain, big lump of a guy, he could have took that stick of that scum and whipped him a new *******. That incident and others akin should be classed as a act of terrorism and dealt with maximum force in my eyes. If that was female cops in that car outcome could have been very different.

alcazar

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You've seen it on the Beeb, then?

boomer

Absolutely - just checked and there is not a mention of it (Paris riots) on the "you make it what it is" BBC News website, neither is there anything about uncontrolled immigration or the fact that Greece will never pay back their debts or anything that might paint the EU as not being whiter than white!

Oh, but "luvvies" in support of the Remaintalists gets posted in just about every news category that exists. At least the HYS audience see though the blatant bias!

There are some nasty forces at work (who will live on if we don't leave the EU!).

mb

dpb

Too commonplace to mention I imagine

Isn't this regular French behavior faced with reduced workers rights

BMWhere?

A SCUBA diver died in lake Constance on Sunday, I didn't see that on BBC news either! ...or any other British news source!

Should the BBC, or any other news organisation cover every single minor news story from every country in the world?

The background to this video is from the Labour day protests on 1st may, which resulted in pretty major riots where were covered by the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36183277

Perhaps more scandalous than the BBC not covering a (in comparrison to the major riot in the link above) relatively minor scuffle in France, perhaps you should question the complete absence of reporting on the Leveson enquiry by the Sun. The only results you'll find searching for Leveson on the Sun website are general criticism of the need for an enquiry or the results of the enquiry, or stories spun to make the Sun look good like this one http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-evidence.html

No news source is perfect and can cover all news stories from everywhere, thats why its important to read more than one source, including international press which may remove some of the local press bias!

alcazar

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Sounds like mealy-mouthed excuses for propaganda to me, LOL

SWRTWannabe

Think I can explain his nonchalance at his car being firebombed and bursting into flames.

He probably drives a Zafira.

joz8968

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lol