It’s not just in the U.S. where the police lose it and go beyond what is considered acceptable behavior. British bobbies are considered polite, helpful, and good at their jobs. So what happened here?
The woman in the video was arrested after being found sleeping in her car and refusing to take a breathalyser test. Taken to the station, she was treated far too harshly for her non-crime.
Dragging her across the floor is one thing, as she was being difficult and refusing to enter the cell, but there is no excuse for slamming her face-first into the floor. Which resulted in her bleeding heavily from the face.
Sure, the woman isn’t an angel, and she should just have completed the breathalyser test. But she hadn’t actually done anything wrong, and even if she had this was completely unacceptable behavior on the part of the policeman involved.
