- Aqil Farooq: General Secretary for Black Police Association - http://voscur.circle-interactive.co.uk/system/files/BEN9.2.06mins.pdf
- Aqil Farooq Avon & Somerset Constabulary
- Aqil Farooq: General Secretary for Black Police Association (tel: 07917 213 623)
- Aqil: assesses impact of issues such as recent bombings and impact on the Muslim community; works with wider community on good relationships with the police, and to feel more valued within their own community. He provided a potted history of the BPA which started in 1997 (and the Avon & Somerset BPA is one of 44 in the country). The association addresses:
- low numbers of BME officers in the force (recent statistics show 1.4% from BME background while Home Office target is 4%)
- recruitment & retention issues / barriers encountered / career development etc and referred to Steven Lawrence case and impact.
- encourages people to come forward to make contact (difficulty in light of previous negative restraints / experiences of the police)
Question: What is a BME? Bowel Movement Extreme? His arrest of someone who took a picture of Aqil Farooq breaking the law sure encourages people to have contact with Black Muslim police officers.
This hits home for me, because the other day, I was driving with my family in Southern California, and a police officer on a motorcycle made an illegal u-turn into a gas station. He wasn't riding to an emergency, just wanted to get gas. So my brother said technically we could use our citizen's arrest powers or some such, but we all agreed, we'd just be beat up and thrown in jail. It really sets a horrible example for men like this to flaunt their disrespect for the law.
1 posted on 08/20/2008 12:39:08 PM PDT by puffer
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...officer Aqil Farooq (formerly of the Baghdad police system of Saddam Hussein)..............
2 posted on 08/20/2008 12:41:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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In spite of what Barney and Gomer say, I don't believe people have the right to a 'citizen's arrest.'
But then I am not an attorney.
3 posted on 08/20/2008 12:41:42 PM PDT by [NeilGus]
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officer Aqil Farooq The England I knew 15 years ago is dead and gone.
4 posted on 08/20/2008 12:42:55 PM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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um, no. you cannot make a citizens arrest for a traffic infraction.
could you imagine? ha!
10 posted on 08/20/2008 12:50:59 PM PDT by thefactor (contributing nothing of value to threads since 2001...)
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snip
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
15 posted on 08/20/2008 12:56:32 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ( They told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated)
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So do cops in England eat donuts or just fish and chips?
"(Aqil) Farooq and an unnamed WPC said they were at the fish and chip shop to review CCTV footage of another incident."
23 posted on 08/20/2008 1:09:16 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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In the situation you described at the gas station, I would not have confronted the officer either. Who knows what could happen? He could find some "blow" in your back seat. ha ha
no, really...
28 posted on 08/20/2008 1:14:46 PM PDT by barcalounger
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LEO are exempt from following the traffic laws. Citizen's arrests are legal but the perp has to be willing, and you can use no force whatsoever in detaining them until police arrive, even if they decide they want to leave, even if they have caused property damage. The only exception is self-defense which you better be able to prove necessity for. Citizen's arrests are actually willing detentions.
30 posted on 08/20/2008 1:17:35 PM PDT by Righter-than-Rush
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The plumber, 44, was arrested for supposedly being drunk, resisting arrest and assaulting the officer with the camera.
Is it now illegal to be drunk in the UK, if you aren't driving or disturbing the peace?
40 posted on 08/20/2008 1:34:52 PM PDT by Maceman (If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
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The fortunate thing is that there are apparently no asinine homeland security laws that the authorities could use ("for the safety of the motherland, taking photographs of government agents is a treasonous activity") in order to justify this thuggish behavior.
50 posted on 08/20/2008 1:51:30 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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A large number of them think they are above the law since if they get pulled over they flash a badge and get out of a ticket because of "professional courtesy".
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If I wanted to, I could take a picture every single day of police cuisers that park in front of fire hydrants while they run into the deli to grab a sandwich but what's the point
72 posted on 08/20/2008 2:32:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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After Andrew Carter snapped the cop van, officer Aqil Farooq leaped out, hit the camera to the ground, handcuffed him and bundled him into the back of the vehicle. What set this rage in motion? Could it be TROP?
89 posted on 08/21/2008 5:21:28 AM PDT by Ezekiel (Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.)
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Our boys in blue are the filth of the road. I have no respect for them, they are a paramilitary power tripping gang of psycho's.
90 posted on 08/21/2008 6:09:46 AM PDT by Mercia
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After Andrew Carter snapped the cop van, officer Aqil Farooq leaped out, hit the camera to the ground, handcuffed him and bundled him into the back of the vehicle.
All hell would have broken loose if the cop were a native Englishman and the person who got his camera knocked to the ground and got arrested was Muslim .....Who are not even Englishmen but undesirable foreign imports
93 posted on 08/21/2008 1:14:47 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
