“If anyone ever deserved a good slap, this woman certainly did…”

Instead of the sanitised version of injured innocence, what you’ll see is an aggressive-looking young woman – as yet unidentified – hat pulled down over her eyes, mouthing obscenities into the face of a police officer, who is trying to ignore her.
After several minutes of this he snaps and slaps her with the back of his hand with the words: “Go away.”
She doesn’t and she continues to hurl abuse. At which point he draws his baton and belts her on the legs.

If anyone ever deserved a good slap, this woman certainly did.
Instead of being suspended and investigated, I believe the officer involved should be commended for his forbearance.

So says misogynist Bill Carmichael of the Yorkshire Post, state thuggery and violence against women is totally acceptable  as this woman got what she deserved. Is his next column going to argue for the return of the ‘rule of thumb’ against lippy women who step out of line?

And it seems the spin machine of the right-wing press in conjunction with the cops (and you can rely on right-wing ideologues to defend the indefensible!) are muck raking and smearing this woman.

But hey, lets not distract ourselves with a spot of cop violence lets look at the woman… and her past! And whatta  shocker…she has a past!! Who doesn’t have a past, for cryin’ out loud!!!

Lets not contend ourselves by the boring details about this TSG cop not wearing his number lets distract ourselves with details of the the woman who had her hat pulled down over her eyes. Shocking! And could she have done that because…it was a sunny day… (Oh, how prosaic!).

She remonstrated with the cop, if you look at the video on youtube, the cops decided a couple of mins previously to grab a man for no reason that is what she and others were responding to. I witnessed them grab this man for no reason and that caused people to remonstrate…I saw the TSG cop grab another woman seconds before, he was intent on punching her as well! Carmichael would undoubtedly believe she deserved a beating too!!!

 Why did they grab this man? Instead of asking that question, this woman is portrayed as some anti-establishment layabout (see the Mail for their brand of ‘reportage’). She is the thug, she is the threat, an extremist, a terrorist. The cop was only doing what was expected, in the right-wing ideologue’s eyes.

But then with the ever widening of the definition of ‘extremism’ and ‘terrorism’ under NL anyone who protests is one, speaks out is one, therefore we are all …terrorists.

Again, as the cops have experienced dire PR during the past couple of weeks the right-wing will strike back. Expect more smears and hype against anyone who has the audacity to speak out and/or complain about police violence.

(HatTip: Indymedia)