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A US Police Officer isn’t bound by duty to risk their own life.

Subjectively, I’m not sure how I feel. But objectively it’s unsurprising he hasn’t ended up doing porridge just because he wanted to go home to his family at the end of the work day.

Seems like nothing changes since La Haine

A US Police Officer isn’t bound by duty to risk their own life.

If they're not expected to do anything while a gunman is shooting children, what's even the fucking point of them then? Emergency services sometimes have to risk their lives to protect, that's part of the whole deal.

Worth dropping into leagel eagle for an understanding of the US police laws..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWqLxTatndU

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They are a deterrent.
Given the lack of decent training you don’t really want one police officer with a pistol firing in a school, the chances of adding casualties is very high.
Pistols are inherently short range weapons and not incredibly accurate, running into a crowded situation and hitting an innocent bystander is quite likely.

On top of that they are not paid a premium wage to risk their lives, that is not part of the deal. On the basis of the failed prosecution it appears anyone who worked at the school could have been prosecuted for failing to intervene.

Farage has had his bank account closed...waiting on a proper article (the news just broke) but at least some good news ;)

He is of course playing the victim, hard. Claims no bank wants to give him an account (which is either BS or very, very strange unless he's touched something Bad)

Now, banks can be a bit difficult if they feel like it. Somebody on a forum I am on cannot buy a house simply because the cash they earned was made in a country the UK laws don't like. And sometimes accounts get closed for other reasons, banks cannot be bothered anymore etc.

So perhaps he didn't really do anything wrong, and got unlucky. But my account which gets only payroll £ into isn't being closed, just saying... ;)

annot buy a house simply because the cash they earned was made in a country the UK laws don't like

Not having a UK income that could get you a mortgage, yet able to buy a house with cash, is extremely sus though.

Isn't that just being rich?

Farage:

"I didn't quite know what to make of it, I complained, I emailed the chairman, a lackey phoned me to say that it was a commercial decision, which I have to say, I don't believe for a single moment.

Basically, in Farage's world anyone below the level of chairman is a lackey beneath his contempt. That working class people could vote for this cunt defies me.

They dream of being the uber-Karen who wants to speak to the chairman

Yeah that was very telling, they’re either servants or chairman/CEO/etc.

It's possible the bank Chairman used to be happy to pass over brown envelopes in the heady UKIP days.

Or his rubles from RT

He's just after an excuse to permanently leave the UK, surely, and shift all his cash elsewhere?

Claims no bank wants to give him an account (which is either BS or very, very strange unless he's touched something Bad)

There are regulations in the UK around giving bank accounts to ‘politically exposed’ individuals.

Essentially anyone whose funding might come from questionable political motives. His connections to Russia would certainly be enough to trigger that.

I believe Aaron Banks (or doesn't in this case) has had similar issues. Which is such a shame.

Sounds like the type of law that is very loosely enforced.

But Russian money connections, well, you really ask for it. Maybe he can open an account in Belarus ;)

Sounds like the type of law that is very loosely enforced.

If you're enforcing it loosely, you're looking at a very large fine.

Gutted for him.

Well it means that you have to do a lot more work to satisfy yourself about the source of funds. Although I'd suggest (cough, HSBC, cough) that work hasn't always been done.

HSBC know (or had a very good idea) exactly where the funds are from, each and every time they are dinged for shitty KYC and AML practices.

They choose to ignore problematic sources if it brings in the cash. Again, and again, and again.

Usually, it's just a fine that is defrayed against the profits they make.

At worst, it's a milquetoast deferred prosecution, whereby nothing happens if they have a bunch of extra learning courses and a workshop or two.

HSBC was caught laundering drug money in the USA.

Taking away the banking license would have caused an economic shitshow, so it could have been done, but wasn't.

Kinda hilarious he's dumb enough to get caught after all the dodgy Russian links. Boris, the donations that were not checked properly with a toothless Electoral Commission that could only "educate" not invalidate the referendum etc. etc.

But who will have him? For mainland EU he needs a visa, and "persona non grata" is what he may hear. The USA? Biden is not keen on him I imagine. Canada? Perhaps...unless he pissed off enough people there.

And if he thinks he's as welcome as a fart in an elevator in England, he should try Ireland :p

Didn’t he apply for a German passport in 2016?
With that he could live anywhere in the EU.

German dual citizenship is generally only allowed, by Germany, if the second nationality is EU so perhaps not.

(there are exceptions, eg by Jewish descent, but I don't think they would apply to Nigel)