The Metropolitan Police which serve (and I say that loosely) the people of the London area might not be able to effectively deal with burglaries or muggings or robberies or anti-social behaviour but they are damned effective at finding ‘racism’ even when the ‘racism’ wasn’t there. According to a poster on X an image of a female Muslim Met officer holding a rifle went viral and attracted a very great deal of criticism from members of the public.
The Met were straight out of the traps at lightening speed to whine that the public’s complaints about the Muslim officer and her rifle were ‘racist’. However it appears that the bulk of these complaints by members of the public were nothing to do with this woman’s race or religion. What people were, in my view very reasonably, complaining about was the female officer’s truly appalling and unsafe method of holding her rifle. Now I do not have a firearms or a shotgun licence but I know enough about firearms to understand that rule 1 of safe firearms handling is keep your damned fingers well away from the trigger until it’s time to fire the weapon. This woman as can be seen from the image below, has clearly failed to follow or even understand that rule.
The X user ‘Basil The Great’ said:
“The MET Police have been SLAMMED after they released a statement claiming a female muslim firearms officer was “abused” for being a muslim Community notes has researched this claim and revealed that the vast majority of the criticisms were for her lack of gun safety The MET Police are awful”
The Met Police are indeed awful. Still at least we know now what animates the senior management of the Met, it’s not the burglary, robbery, car crime and antisocial behaviour that you may suffer from in London, it’s perceived ‘racism’ even when such racism doesn’t exist.
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Gun should also be pointed down and not at her colleagues legs.
Before anyone says ‘the gun wasn’t loaded ‘ go check the stats on firearm injuries and fatalities where the gun was believed to be not loaded.
As Alec Baldwin discovered to his cost.
Well, not really his cost….
If this was you or me then we would have or license taken away. She will get a stern word and then back to duty.
The only ones…..
I recall my weapons training. Our gunnery instructor would have had apoplexy if we held a rifle like that, and rightly so.
Hi Longrider. Yes the handling of the firearm by this officer was appalling. It was also utterly stupid for the Met’s Commissioner to come out crying so early on about ‘racism’ in connection to this case. Especially as most of the complaints are about this woman being a complete arse with a firearm.
BTW there’s a story about Met firearms officers that I heard years ago but don’t know how true it is but in the background of this latest firearms handling idiocy it’s quite possibly true. Apparently a group of Met Pol Firearms officers decided to book one of the ranges at the Bisley Shooting Centre. Allegedly the group were so unsafe with their firearms handling practises that the officers were asked to swiftly leave.