Complaint about Garda

liberal

I was in a nightclub last night and I saw a young man being dragged to the ground by bouncers outside of the nightclub, there were about 6 bouncers, one bouncer gave the young man 3 quick punches to the side of the head, I tried to stop the bouncers (I didnt know the young man) as the victim looked as if he was unconcious, one of the bouncers said something like "do you want the same, f off", a Garda Van was across the road, I went up to the window, the garda rolled the window down, I told him what happend, he rolled the window up and drove away, he didnt even look at me

What should of happened (if he did his job), he would of gone to the entrance of the night club, seen a very bloody man, taken statements, reviewed CCTV footage and prosecuted at least one bouncer for assualt, then the chances of this happening again would be reduced

Have we forgot about Adrian Moynihan who was killed in a similar situation

http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0326/moynihan.html

GerardKeating

liberal wrote: »

I was in a nightclub last night and I saw a young man being dragged to the ground by bouncers outside of the nightclub, there were about 6 bouncers, one bouncer gave the young man 3 quick punches to the side of the head, I tried to stop the bouncers (I didnt know the young man) as the victim looked as if he was unconcious, one of the bouncers said something like "do you want the same, f off", a Garda Van was across the road, I went up to the window, the garda rolled the window down, I told him what happend, he rolled the window up and drove away, he didnt even look at me

What should of happened (if he did his job), he would of gone to the entrance of the night club, seen a very bloody man, taken statements, reviewed CCTV footage and prosecuted at least one bouncer for assualt, then the chances of this happening again would be reduced

Have we forgot about Adrian Moynihan who was killed in a similar situation

http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0326/moynihan.html

Rather than (or in addition to) posting here, why not report this to the relevant authorities...

the locust

Perhaps the Garda was doing his job?

Obviously i wasn't there. But did the Garda see you? A lot of Gardai get drunken revellers approaching them outside clubs after hours asking for lifts home or i left my coat inside the club and the bouncers won't let me back in etc... and from friends in that line of work i hear tell it gets kind of annoying after years on the job.

Perhaps he received a message on his radio to attend a call somewhere else? Just a possiblity other than him ignoring you. If he did ignore you thats wrong and you are entitled to your complaint, but perhaps there are other possibilities than Garda ingnorance

Profiler

the locust wrote: »

Perhaps the Garda was doing his job?

Since when is it a Garda's job to ignore a complaint of assault?

While we are dealing in the realms of Perhaps

Perhaps the Garda saw some off duty colleagues moonlighting as Bouncers carrying out the assault and perhaps decided his career was better served ignoring an assault.

the locust

Profiler wrote: »

Since when is it a Garda's job to ignore a complaint of assault?

Perhaps the garda got an urgent call and had to leave?
Perhaps tries not to assume.

Reloc8

Yeah...so a lot of speculation.

Presuming you can remember where you were, when you were there and what you saw, and indeed presuming you can identify the people you saw doing it, get yourself down to your local garda station and report your description of the report - or better yet go to the local station to whereever you were. If you can't do this you're wasting your time.

Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry strange behaviour by the garda in question, presuming you were a reliable historian.

Go down to the station and complain about the bouncers; your account of what happened will be every bit as useful as it was last night.

Sangre

the locust wrote: »

Perhaps the garda got an urgent call and had to leave?
Perhaps tries not to assume.

Garda: 'I have just got an urgent call that I've to attend to but I will radio this in ASAP (call 999).'

McCrack

Look at the end of the day the only person that can make any criminal complaint is the person you saw being assaulted (which is your opinion).

If and only then would any witnesses be relevant.

A lot of speculation is being thrown about here.

blackcoat

Profiler wrote: »

Since when is it a Garda's job to ignore a complaint of assault?

While we are dealing in the realms of Perhaps

Perhaps the Garda saw some off duty colleagues moonlighting as Bouncers carrying out the assault and perhaps decided his career was better served ignoring an assault.

i love the way you only quote part of his post and then ignore the arguments he makes to justify that part. makes for a very constructive argument.....



OP - i reckon you should try and contact a more senior garda at the local station before we go jumping to ridiculous conclusions such as 'moonlighting' etc.
if your account of events is accurate you dont need us to tell you that the conduct in question was wrong and shouldnt be tolerated.
it must have been very frustrating to be threatened by the bouncer like that and have no recall. i do agree with the other poster who said the garda may have written you off as another drunk looking for attention. i guess how inappropriate his reaction was depends on your condition at the time....