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I'm saying that you seem to have got the wrong end of the stick, the police are there to protect our rights, our rights to not be burgled, our right to not be raped, and our right to not be attacked by big men with sticks. In some circumstance they need to attack people with big sticks to uphold other peoples rights (regardless of whatever your view on the legitimacy of this role), but once we start upholding the police rights, over the rights of the citizens, which si precisly which is precisly what has happened here, then we are in a very bad place, a police state so to speak. I dont think this one case is mega-important, and i dont think this woman is a saint, but this case very clearly highlights problems with the British police force and the monitoring and accountability of it