Andrew Mitchell still swore at a Police Officer. Anyone else would have been arrested. Probably not prosecuted. But certainly arrested, and given a night in the cells.
And he is still being sued for libel.
Like a verdict of lawful killing by a jury, the conviction of a bent copper means that the system works.
Notice that the jurors in the Duggan case are now under special protection due to the kind of threats that give cause for such. We all know from where come threats like that.
Of whatever community Mark Duggan might have been a member, it has not manifested any distress at the ruling that his death was within the law.
Apart, that is, from the community of those who make the kind of threats that leads to the extension of special protection to jurors.
You're right on Mark Duggan, about whom the less said the better (particularly for his family, who can't enjoy seeing his full criminal past being put on public display).
ReplyDeleteHowever the Andrew Mitchell case goes a lot further than "one bent copper".
It involved a disgraceful leak of a police log by police insiders to the media, a forged "email" purporting to be from a member of the public (but actually drafted by the police) a series of lies by three Police Federation members of the West Midlands Police about their meeting with Mr Mitchell, supported by that Federation.
This has been a widespread, highly-politicised and deceitful conspiracy by elements of the police to bring down a member of the Government.
Peter Hitchens (no fan of the Tories, or of Andrew Mitchell) is to be heartily congratulated for being officially the first ever journalist to disbelieve the police account-way back when this first happened.
It seems he knew the terrible nature of the modern British police better than the rest of the gullible media.
It is people who will take any side at all against them who are gullible and unoriginal. I am afraid that on this, Hitchens's Trotskyist past is showing.
ReplyDeleteNeither side in this case deserves any sympathy. But neither is typical of anything except itself. The canonisation of Andrew Mitchell is wholly misplaced.
Your extreme closeness to the police is something your Left allies should know more about.
ReplyDeleteSwearing at a police officer is no longer a crime:
ReplyDelete"Swearing at police is not a crime, judge rules"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8902770/Swearing-at-police-is-not-a-crime-judge-rules.html
Funny how thousands of people per week are arrested for it, then.
ReplyDeleteBut not Andrew Mitchell, funnily enough.
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