Bag's Rants

How exactly do we end up paying for his?

I found this article on a £100,000 payout by the police to Duwayne Brooks who was with Stephen Lawrence when he was knifed in 1993. Read more here.

Now from what I understand it seems that because the police arrested this guy and then found him innocent, it was wrongful arrest and the trauma means that he need £100K to get to sleep at night.

First of all it was some bad guy with a knife that actually killed him and generated the trauma.

The police, quite reasonably I would have thought, considered the person with the victim to be a suspect until proved otherwise. Innocent people do geconcerneded when they are arrested by the police. Are they not to do that if they have reasonable suspicion now?

By the sound of things this guy has claimed that this suspicion was based on racism and, as usual, we have paid out rather than be put in court where it could be proved that somofficersrs are racist. So what? Those offices should be sacked and we should not be £100K down.

Should be expensive pretty soon. After all we are now arresting lots of people under the new KGB style laws. Of course the white ones can just live with their trauma but those that can claim racism are going to be quids in.

Better start working some overtime now to keep the tax coffers topped up.

posted by Bag @ 12:53 pm