Thread by @madgie1941

This is a copy of the letter am sending.

1/Dear PC March and PCC Mountstevens
I have always supported and respected the police force. This morning, however, I saw with horror the events of last night in Bristol.
The heavy-handed police behaviour was appalling, and can only

2/exacerbate an already fraught and volatile situation; I am amazed you chose to act in such a senseless and unproductive manner.
Initially, the situation was calm and peaceful. When certain hotheads and RentaMob thugs attempted to disrupt, your police attacked quite

3/indisciminately. Surely, with your resources, and intellignce you could have moved in on the troublemakers and removed them, without endangering the safety of the vast majority of peaceful protestors?
It is also disturbing to note that even initially when all was calm you

4/thought it necessary to have the police cavalry to hand. and ready to charge.
I have film and sound footage of seated protestors being stabbed persistently by riot shields; of a woman with nothing but a guitar in her hands being slapped repeatedly in the face with a truncheon

5/until she fell to the ground, of a reporter screaming at the police, as they attacked him, that he was a bystander and merely reporting.
This is not acceptable.
This was not necessary.
You need to train your police to have more discrimination as to whom they attack, to develop

pages 6 & 7 missing here

6/better negotiating & crowd control skills, to act more wisely and productively rather than panic and lash out.
Had I been one of the seated protestors, or the young woman with the guitar, or the reporter, or anyone about to be trampled underfoot by your cavalry, I would sue

7/and pursue you to the 9th circle of hell.

Your actions were harmful and will only increase distrust.
We need a trustworthy, and a WISELY competent police force.

Yours.....