Paul,

You said,

" If these four should be found guilty of serious misconduct,..."

Why say 'if' when you have made up your mind that they are guilty?

Now the cats out of the bag!

"In the Philippines he would have been shot dead & that would have been the end of the matter. It's a pity the Government can't introduce similar Laws here. It would certainly cut down on Crime & get rid of a lot of Crims at the same time."

Its a pity, a real shame, we don't have a 'shot dead by police law'. I am most upset. Lets apply rule 303! Trust the rabid right to fly their true colours

Paul: Lets apply rule 303! Trust the rabid right to fly their true colours.

See you can be reasonable. I take it that you'd be a bit worried by that rule though. Ay.

Dear Paul,

I agree with you whole-heartedly. This case is very disturbing.
It is hard to believe that four police officers, with all of
their training could not bring under control a 16 year old
boy and ended up beating him 14 times with batons because he
had a "scary look?" I suppose the boy's lucky not to have
been shot dead. I believe that he did not resist at all or
threaten anyone.

Hopefully, the investigation into this case will result in
appropriate action being taken with the officers concerned.
And also the kind of training that these officers are getting
should also be looked into. Something is very wrong when
officers behave in this manner. The reasons behind their
behaviour need to be examined and action taken to ensure that
this behaviour is not repeated by people who are supposed to be
in the job of protecting - not attacking members of the public.

A lot depends on what he was on; I once had the very unpleasant duty of helping to subdue a fellow soldier who had drunk a concoction, the main ingredient of which was after-shave lotion.

Three of us were struggling to hold him such was his strength, and his best friend, who was a boxer, tried to knock him out.
He hit him with knockout punch after punch and finally succeeded.
He was sobbing his heart out at what he'd had to do.

He told me, the next day, that that was the only way that he could see to stop his best mate and that he took it upon himself because if anyone else had done it he would have been resentful towards them.

That was mateship.

Hi there PAUL1405...

It's never a good look to see a group of coppers struggling with someone offering resistive behaviour. It appears they've lost control (if they ever had it?) and are unable to regain control of the subject once again.

Video evidence can sometimes be very misleading, from both sides of the coin. The police can be made to look bad, as well as the other party. From the brief bit I saw, I would only ask why couldn't a couple of coppers who really knew there stuff, bring this peanut under control?