The Police: Anger you and then arrest you for being angry

Victim of kids' knock-and-run game in Blackburn had to be pepper-sprayed

You read that right. Victim. The police pepper sprayed the victim. You know what they did to the perps? Of course you do

And it's not just bad, inaccurate reporting. It's what actually happened. I'll elaborate

Peter King, defending, said his client was a solitary man who had largely kept himself away from trouble.
"There has been a history of him being oined by local youngsters who have made his life unbearable," said Mr King.

The local scrotes have a well documented history of picking on this chap and generally making his life miserable

The local police have a well documented history of doing nothing to help this chap, but making sure he can do nothing to help himself

Mrs Yates said Cook had a conviction in 2017 which was for an assault on a child and resulted in a suspended prison sentence.

The kids know they can do whatever the hell they like because they've already had this poor chap in the dock, by winding him up beyond all reasonable tolerance

"Since the conviction in 2017 the problems continued but he kept his head down and kept out of trouble."
He said police had suggested a CCTV camera outside the house and Cook had installed one.
"He was still the target of knock and run, banging on the windows and that kind of behaviour," said Mr King.

It's been almost two years. The police have suggested CCTV, advice which was taken, yet they've done nothing at all to deal with the kids who are responsible

"On the morning of this incident he called police on the 101 number and told them children had climbed up and dislodged the CCTV camera.
"The officers who attended gave him some advice which he felt was very negative and all his frustrations boiled over," said Mr King.
"He knows he should just have allowed the officers to leave."

The 'advice' they gave him was to not go outside and threaten the kids

That's it

No wonder he got angry. The police deserved a raft of fucks in my opinion. They been consistently beyond useless through this whole episode
The courts are no better. If I was the magistrate, I would have thrown out the case and invited a counter action against the police for complete dereliction of duty in the matter of the kids, and assault in the matter of the pepper spraying

The police are no longer fit for purpose