Kid Dynamite

Nothing says "paying respect" like setting a police van on fire

Just found this old picture of me aged 7ish. Mint tracksuit!

Apparently it's a black Welsh lad whose dad was an immigrant. Reading between the lines, it sounds like he might be Schizophrenic. Anyway, that's enough ammo to bring out Tommy's boys in force. Drinking crates of cider with their faces covered. All in support of the grieving families of course

What does this little hand symbol mean?

Some absolute bell end posted a picture on twitter of an injured young lass covered in blood. Not much older than my bairn. Time for a break off there I think.

How's Henry Mauriss these days?

Schar's long term successor I imagine

I genuinely thought she already had

We randomly had David Puttnam visit our school. I'm not sure anyone could have given less of a shit

I see the gobby solicitor has now withdrawn his services "in light of the new information"

Shazam tells you the name of a song Grandad. I remember you being funnier

21 games/0 goals as a striker last season. I hope that was because he was playing in an awful Sheff Utd team. Doesn't say much for the state of our academy when we don't have anyone home grown who would be worth a punt as a 3rd choice striker

No. His solicitor posted a video outside of A&E moaning that he was at the bottom of the list to be seen.

Speaking of said SSN presenter, this makes me feel old...

Chester Le Street lad Brian Robson. I used to live in the same cul de sac as his 2 brothers. He got us tickets in the posh seats to see England vs Sweden in the Umbro Cup at Elland Road in 1995. Was sat on the same row as Stan Collymore and Alex Ferguson edit - just checked the team. Shearer, Barton and Beardsley all playing. Gazza came off the bench

Good goal though

Matt Targett not in the squad to Japan. Is he injured or has he been dropped from the first team squad with Fraser and Hayden? Lewis seems to be getting another chance (which is odd given Burn, Hall and Kelly can all play LB).

Wilson missing the entirety of pre-season won't do his body any favours when he is introduced straight back into competitive football.

Aye. Just in case he thought of getting back up again he was reasserting his dominance. That's in the police handbook (probably)

And fwiw, proportionality is key here. If someone is trying to stab you for example, you're not going to be prosecuted for giving them a kick to the head. It's up to a jury whether they feel, in the context of the full video, it was proportionate use of force.

The legal twitterati seem to think that if this ends up in court, a guilty verdict will hinge on how much time elapsed between the bloke in the blue top hitting the floor, how quickly the copper realised he had been tasered (by someone else) and how quickly he kicked him. The coppers defence will be: - I was getting punched by at least 2 different people - I feared my gun would be removed - I was dragged to the floor - I could hear my female colleagues being assaulted and in distress - I jumped up and in a split second felt it was proportionate to aim a kick to neutralise to man on the floor in order to get handcuffs on him Twitter seems to be split between those that hate brown people and those that hate the police. There's clearly a more nuanced middle ground here

I suppose Benjamin Monk might be the precedent for this court case. Although there are obviously big differences in the 2 cases.

He wasn't cuffed on the floor. This video shows the first kick right at the end. (I don't follow this account btw 😂)

True. I'm not defending it fwiw. But I can understand why it happened. If you stitch the 2 videos together there was about 5 seconds between the copper getting sucker punched multiple times (and probably fearing his gun might be grabbed), the other bloke hitting the ground and then the copper giving him a boot. I don't suppose it was a pre meditated kick, but the law is the law. Be interesting to see how it plays out in court.

I'm not going to post publicly who told me, but its 100% fact