From the current news in Western Australia.....
A POLICEMAN who allegedly placed a rope across a pathway, causing two teenage boys on a motorcycle to fall off and suffer injuries, has faced the Perth Magistrates Court on assault charges.
So two kids are illegally riding a motorbike through a suburb causing neighbourhood unrest and the cop is the only one to face charges??? I'm not condoning what the cop did, but I fail to see how he is the only one to blame.
Luke said the police officer set the trap while they were riding through the park and claimed he was trying to kill the boys. "I got home and told Mum and Dad that an officer tried to kill me," Luke told Channel Nine News.
How on earth did he "Try to kill" you, Luke ??? Did he pull a gun on you? No, he was trying to stop you from committing an illegal activity. Last time I checked our state legislation riding a motorbike through a park isn't legal. Perhaps if you were old enough to hold a drivers licence and had a registered motorbike, and rode it on the road like law abiding people, there wouldn't have been a problem.
The boys' mother said if her son hadn't put his arm up to protect his neck, he could've been killed.
"I don't know what drove him to do something like that, they're two young boys," Robyn Stratton said.
I don't know about you Robyn, but two young boys should probably be brought up better to know that riding an unregistered motorbike through a park is illegal and not the done thing. But I'm sure you're outstanding parenting skills would have told them that. At the ages of 15 & 16 they aren't "young boys", they are teenagers and should know "right from wrong".
And the media has been playing a serious "anti Police" card in all of this. Perthnow and The Sunday Times seem to have a hatred for the WA Police. Must have something to do with getting raided by them for leaking state political information.
I think the Police should lay charges against the boys for the commital of an illegal act regardless of the current charges against the Police Officer. It's not about an eye for an eye, it's about upholding the law.
