Ordinary police officer seen in Britain look very different from the type who deal with protests!
Police on the streets are either short, often overweight, females, or weedy-looking young men. The ones who are unleashed against demonstrators though are big, tough, burly men. What accounts for this strange situation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5iqyUD6B6c
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