PC Manchester Policing

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that self distancing rules were being broken in large numbers in Greater Manchester, northern England ....

Self Distancing Rules Breaking Down In Greater Manchester

I also considered that the policing of these criminal acts had been remarkably soft (but didn't include it in the article), as only one person had been fined (and then only after three police visits to the party she was holding). All this had been nothing more than a side observation in a larger piece.

I had also used this image to illustrate a group of white council estate chavs, who were very unlikely to self isolate ...

Manchester Council Estate Residents?

..... or in fact pay much attention to any of the new social behaviours that the Government was saying we had to obey, in order to stop the plague apocalypse falling on us all.

But aside from that brief comment, I wasn't planning to revisit that city or subject again, as I assumed that having had this mass disobedience, the GMP Police would toughen up and start enforcing the rules with fines and arrests (as other police forces had promised to do).
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However it appears that there is something very wrong in the policing in that major city, after the death and funeral of a minor local criminal, once again saw these rules flouted, and the police do little more than beg the law breakers to be nice and go home. 

Manchester's Finest On Parade .... Not A Policeman In Sight

The excuse for the ignoring of the social distancing rules was the funeral of a well known local man .... I quote the local newspaper " ..... his death has triggered a public reaction of a rare kind. The type reserved for those occasions when a figure with a particular status on Greater Manchester's streets and council estates meets an untimely end."  .... this glowing prose refers to the death of a man with a criminal record for stabbings, not to the demise of a local charity worker.

The subject of this praise was a gentleman called Clive Pinnock, who in 2015 had been described in that same local paper with the headline "'Jekyll and Hyde' knife thug jailed after stabbing pubgoers in Chorlton on Medlock" .... back then, the report carried on to say that 'Clive Pinnock, 33, from Longsight, stabbed two men after pub row and then tried to fight his way into Baa Baa (a popular pub) in Fallowfield', Manchester. The story then highlighted the series of violent events surrounding Mr Pinnock and his brother Trevor 'in just one evening,' that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of this man.

The newspaper described him as 'A knife man who ‘growled like a dog’ before stabbing two pubgoers,' after he knifed the man who had upset his brother, twice in the back. The victim, in his 30s, was then kicked unconscious. His friend was also stabbed, and then beaten so badly his leg was broken .... Mr Pinnock then tried to storm in to the Baa Baa bar in the Fallowfield area using a metal pole.

Pinnock was branded 'a serious risk to the public' by the judge, as he was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment, with an extended licence period of three years for the crimes of violent disorder, and two charges of GBH with intent. But this is broken Britain, and nothing is as it seems, so by 2020, just 5 years after that long sentence, he was back on the streets of Manchester, and riding his motorbike when he was killed.   

So not someone who should be treated as a hero in a normal environment, but then we are talking about the UK's extensive underclass ... the Labour Party's bastard children, born from the old working class, and with its hero worship of violent thugs .... so much the same group who will root for police killers, will also ignore the law to attend a thugs funeral.

Needless to say the funeral event still ended violently (these are after all criminals), despite the softly softly police approach ... the police were eventually called into the cemetery, after reports that a gun had been fired. They then found a man who had been slashed with a knife, amongst the crowd that were still there. Police enquiries are 'ongoing' as they like to say .... but don't hold your breath waiting for any arrest.

So what do Greater Manchester Police have say about these events ... well they issued a statement:

"Police are aware of several gatherings in relation to a funeral ceremony in Gorton, Manchester. Neighbourhood officers are continuing to sensitively and respectfully co-operate and engage with those people paying their respects to enable them to do so in a safe and orderly environment."

I guess that's reassuring to us all ... a criminals funeral is being handled with sensitivity and respect, while its mourners flout the laws that the rest of us are meant to adhere to. So who is the police officer who sets this flaccid tone for the policing of this vast metropolis? Apparently its a man named Ian Hopkins.

Quite frankly I have to assume that he's not cut from the same cloth as Sir James Anderton, who policed the city with a no nonsense approach when I was a citizen of the town. He didn't treat criminals and their groupies with sensitivity and respect, he arrested and locked them up. I doubt very much that the scenes of mass law breaking associated with the death of this man would have been allowed to happen under his watch.

But now we live in Broken Britain, where the police have no teeth (literally in the GMP), and the woke views of the snowflakes or the criminal underclass hold sway over the rest of us.