"Video: police officers filmed smashing up pensioner's car
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7928289/Video-police-officers-filmed-smashing-up-pensioners-car.html
Two police officers have been suspended after they were filmed smashing up a disabled man’s car while the terrified pensioner sat in the driver’s seat."

Reading the headline my blood started to boil, Fearing the worst I watched the video, expecting that I was about to view police dragging a decrepit gentleman from out of his wheelchair through the windscreen of his wrecked invalid carriage.

Well they hardly smashed up the car, the driver’s window was taken out and there might have been muddy footprints on the bonnet.
The Officer did, rather sadly take 15 swings to put in the driver’s window. But that’s the consequence of locking the door to stop the police speaking to you.
I would have taken issue with Police stopping someone to report them for just a seat belt, except imagine the picture....
A Range Rover with tinted windows like the wannabee gangster making sure the “filth” can’t see the driver. A snide number plate, adding to the impression. Well you’ve gotta stop it.
Having stopped it, it’s not quite as bad as you think it is but you’re getting attitude.
Well if you weren’t going to report someone you shouldn’t do so just because they turn out to be an arrogant cock sucker. Simple: - everyone gets the chance to talk you out of issuing that ticket.
I’ve always found that if you are polite to the officer things don’t get any worse than they already are.
Of course that excludes having the lifeless corpse of a business associate in the boot and a kilo of heroine in the front.
Oh and the automatic weapons on the back seat.
As an example, I have only issued one ticket for fog lights in my career.
A bright clear morning, the red BMW, sidelights and fog lights. Thinks he’s rally driving in the Welsh forests maybe. “I’ve stopped you because of your fog lights; visibility is more than 100 metres, Sir.”
I save the line my Street Duties Instructor used –
“Can you see that bit bright object in the sky sir?”.
“The Moon”?
“So you’ll accept that visibility is over a million miles then Sir.”
Well the driver rather venomously responded “They ain’t fog lights, they’re driving lamps”
My reply “Oh, well I’m reporting you for a misuse of auxiliary lamps, sir”.
He’d made no attempt to talk me out of the ticket, it would have been quite easy, after all it wasn’t much more than a random stop.
But had he driven off whilst I was issuing the ticket, (unless I already had his verified name and address) I might have given chase.
But then the other issues. He’d had a stroke. Of course he was wearing a badge stating I’ve just had a stroke so I can behave like a complete cock. But if it was that serious should he have been driving.
Pensioner... My dad is 70 he looks 60 and I’ve seen 40 year olds that look like 60 year olds. Of course being a senior citizen one might have assumed that he might have behaved more maturely than a petulant yob.
Apart from the embarrassing jumping on the bonnet I see nothing wrong with the stop.
I see everything wrong with the way it was reported in the Telegraph.