Sad and terrible, but for me I cannot have much sympathy for the British police. They do their share of wrong with kettling, beatings, and the arrest of peaceful protesters. For me the police are a little bit like the military. Why do you do such a job? You want to help people and so why do you abuse your power and pick on the weak? For a regular paycheck and a long term job? Just look at Hillsborough for the corruption involved.

Death is awful, but I am not one for pitying the police or the military. There are other jobs one can do. Why not nursing? A job that really helps people and is seemingly no job for a respectable English person anymore. But no, jobs that involve bottling dissent and expanding force when dissent says no.