Well that’s a relief, Commissioner

It’s not been a good few weeks for Police Commissioners.

Adrian Handstock, the Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, said, “We kept a dignified response to that to allow that protest to take place. However, once that extreme violence - and it was violence that could not be anticipated on that scale – occurred, we moved the appropriate level of resources in”.

Dignified? How heartening for those who were beaten, robbed or had their homes destroyed. Fuck dignity, where’re the water cannon? At least if they didn’t use them on the rioters they could have put out some fires.

But more ridiculous was his defence of the police response. Wouldn’t an appropriate level of resources have snuffed out the rioting?

What would Aussie cops do? Not much better - unless the rioting was confined to a single mentally ill person, preferably a teenager. Then we’ve no doubt they’d show great bravery in shooting the poor kid to death from a safe distance.