swj99
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Because it always looks easier in the films and the training videos.I like the way when an incident like this happens you get internet tough guys coming on saying "Why didn't someone do something?" And you know what they would have done if they were there? Absolutely nothing, just like everybody else.....unless they had some kind if death wish.
And why aren't they "beating them to death"? Because a) these guys were armed with machetes
I wonder how many of those so called bystanders had training or experience in unarmed combat.
I have seen a lot of people who have "had a go" in the past some were justified in cases where they stopped a crime being committed but in this case people were probably right to stay out of it.
I remember an incident where someone had a go. It went wrong and he ended up with life threatening injuries.
I absolutely guarantee that if members of the public had tried to intervene they would be dead alongside them and possibly made this worse.
People usually act according to their perception, experience and / or training. Im sure if anyone who was there had thought they were in with a reasonable chance of stopping it, they would have tried. The fact that they didnt suggests that they realized the seriousness of the situation.
Its easy to look at something like this in hindsight, which of course is an exact science, and wonder what if. Or speculate on what could have been done differently. Bearing in mind there were two armed assailants, youd realistically need at least two, possibly more people who were able to disarm and either injure or restrain both assailants to the point where they were no longer a threat. There are probably plenty of people who think they could do this, but I would have thought there are probably a lot less who are actually capable of it.
What makes me sad is the pointless pages for likes being formed on facebook and the very apparent racism from many quarters.
Yes definitely. As if whats happened isnt bad enough already, theres some quite disturbing and inflammatory stuff being posted on facebook. I also find it quite sad that the EDL seem to have taken it upon themselves to waste valuable police resources by causing trouble.