Nasty.

[Answerprancer]

"..it was just a freak accident" ..yeah right, committed by a freak.
Opinions ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYhsrWIlZLQ&feature=share

[I.Don No]

and I thought it was just this country that was going down the pan.....seems we have company.

I work in a primary school and I have come across some pupils who would, if allowed to join the police force, behave in this same way.

It seems to me that actions do not have re-actions anymore......have the laws of physics changed or do people in charge just turn up, punch in on their time card, do as little as possible and then go home again and wait for the monthly pay cheque?

[Cowtipper]

The guy is a thug. But he is within guidelines. An unfortunate accident cost a man his life(or close enough). How much culpability he has for running in the first place I don't know. The other guy ran too so he has no excuse to break the law by jaywalking, then failing to follow a lawful order, then attempting to flee. Personally I'd rather be knocked over(without the wall there) than tazed. Just my humble opinion.

[birdie1971]

What astonishes me is that it seems so easy to get files on an individual Police Officer in the USA. This backs up the claims I have recently read in a book by an American journalist called Heather Brooks (who was the journalist who blew the lid on the recent MP's expenses scandal).

In the USA, at a local level at least, they don't seem pathologically obsessed with secrecy like they are here in the UK.

I don't often say this but in respect of freedom of information about our public officials, we could learn a thing or two from our American cousins.