Polite teenager accosted by police just for crossing a road 

I see Staffordshire Police have just made a comment about this video on their Facebook Page. facebook.com/staffordshirepolice/ They even have the temerity to reinforce the two officer's ridiculous conceit that they were 'concerned about his safety'. Threatening to charge someone for a non existent offence because a police driver is not paying due care and attention to the road is never 'concern about safety' and is in fact 'outward corruption.' I think the police's Facebook comment just shows how shameless they are. If they genuinely cared about the public's safety then they wouldn't allow a pair of reckless bullies like this to walk among us. I don't have a Facebook account so I can't comment. I hope everyone who does have one will set them straight.

Scary to think a 16 year old boy is more mature and grown up than two adult police officers.

His parents should be proud of him he’s articulate polite but not a pushover

Bullying a teenage boy and swearing at him. He was polite.

Let us give Joshua a round of applause for being so strong and yet polite. His parents have bought him up brilliantly! Well done lad!

Female Officer uses the F word to a minor. Class.

What’s frustrates me the most is how police treat everyone the same. This lad is not a thug or hooligan he’s polite well spoken but they treat him like he a piece of crap. These two bullies are the reason people don’t respect the police

Well done to the kid for recording these foul-mouthed bullies.

"if I'd hit you, you'd be liable" is horrendous and is also a lie

She's swearing in public that's an offence

The female officer suddenly dropped the F bomb if the young lad did that they would have arrested him. Complete bullies sad to see.

More soft target policing while real crime gets ignored

Disgusting, I'm gona call and make a complaint about this officer lying, threatening and abusing his power of authority

The only person acting like a mature adult is the young lad. The other two are a pair of childish bullies.

That kid was literally the most mature and behaved person in this moment.

They actually get paid to do this. Unbelievable.

The young lad has to be the most mature 16 yr old I've ever heard talking, deffo NOT an immature kid, good for you young MAN 💪🏼

Dropping an F bomb.. very professional. Quality female police officer. If the lad had said F he would have had a public order.

This young lad is not a thug,or a little boy .He spoke politely and was more mature than the bully police. Poor kid,they showed him no respect what so ever

Why does a policewoman have to swear at a child? Appalling behaviour.

He’s more intelligent than either of those pigs

These police saying “your attitude stinks” when there acting so much more rude.

999 Help I'm being burgled.... Sorry, we don't have any officers available because they're all busy "educating" teenages on crossing the road.

He is impeccable in his responses. No attitude. The only attitude is from the pathetic coppers.

They only saying his got attitude because he's answering with the truth. Bullying a 16 year old . Terrible

These police officers became increasingly bullying when they realised that that they could not intimidate this articulate and polite young man.

They weren't bothered about his safety, they just wanted to pick on a young lad doing nothing wrong...

The Tufty Club has got a lot tougher since I was a kid.

Why do they feel the need to bully a 16 year kid When there are plenty of real crimes going on its just very strange

This starts painful, gets more painful and then gets disgusting. Literally disgusting behaviour by the police. The lad does well he stays cool and doesn't get confused by their relentless bullshit. Clearly way more intelligent than they are.

This lad conducted himself perfectly. Good on him and his parents.

What the hell, Female officer even swore at him 😲

I'm gonna be shouting "We don't have jaywalking in this country" for weeks out of habit because of the number of times I've done so watching this.

Cop "You're smurking" Lad "I have the most neutral facial expression.." Absolutely golden response 😂

Saying that he's being rude when she uses the f word at him

"we don't have to stop for you" Eh what?

Joshua, well done mate you showed these two up in a big way. Mum and Dad should really proud of how you handled the pair 👏👏👍

They told the boy he was rude using the word "What" when the female officer previously used the word "Fuck". Unbelievable!!!

And the police are wondering why everyone is starting to really hate them. They have lost the respect of the public.

Oh dear!!! The IRONY!!!! They have NO IDEA that they're the one with the STINKING attitudes!!! 😡😡😡👊

Had a policeman try and tell me that I can't park on double yellow lines whilst using my blue badge. He continuously tried telling me that I was parked illegally. In the end I just laughed at him and walked away.

He disrupted the two officers, who were enjoying their packet of Haribo.

This lad should sue the police He's done nothing wrong.

Wankers intimidating from the first question! Cause he's a young man, well done he challenged them

Common sense: what were you doing at the time of the attack/murder/robbery/rape? Average UK cop: I was telling someone off for annoying me.

Lad was far too smart, articulate for these two numpties

“We don’t have to stop for you”. Someone needs better training And their attitude to the young man was awful.

Wow! That certainly made Britain a safer country!!

If my son had gone through this I would have gone ballistic and demanded those annoying bullying police be fired.

She actually admitted to driving without due care , by saying she didn't see him , so much for trained driver.

Sack the cops, these people are not up to standard.

I am absolutely sick to death of hearing police say “no listen to me” then spouting shit under the guise of law and as for cars having right of way I was taught it was pedestrians at all times.

"It would be better if you just say sorry" - and there you have it, the real reason they wanted to stop the lad.

What a sensible young man. I’d be proud if this was my son. Such disgusting treatment from those police officers.

He's smirking because the officers don't know he's recording them and can put a lie to their claims! So glad he recorded this!

The police are behaving like a South American Junta, bloody disgrace. They were plain bulling the young man who showed restraint and maturity.

I can only hope they don't ever patrol at school time...

The lad was polite and respectful. These two cops are speaking to him in a disgusting manner. They are the disgrace here.

This poor 16 year old makes these officers look like utterly moronic children. And they lecture him about maturity and aggression.

Language, Blimey these coppers need retraining- Foul Language from a Copper on Duty is Disgusting.

So basically, she admitted to undue care and attention because she said she seen him when the lights have changed and he’s halfway across the road. Come on, Pepper, do your job properly

That woman says 'the reason we stopped you is to give you advice' yet they harvested his personal details?

The attitude from the police here is aggressive, disgraceful and unwarranted.

Omg....I need to go to bed but I'm too wound up after watching this. Holy shitballs these two are CRAZY.

This lad is the only adult in the room , if you were my son I’d be proud

If she hit him she is driving without due care and attention 🤣🙄😂

I can’t believe this woman she is so rude

What a pair of facist bullies picking on a youngster

Pedestrians cannot commit a road traffic act offence!

Because the kid was polite but not licking their boots and begging for forgiveness they say he has a bad attitude. He was calm and polite and all they did was swear and bully him for no reason. This has just made another 16 year old hate cops and in turn his story will make his mates hate cops as well.

I’ve seen countless videos of police bad behaviour, for some reason this one made me more angry than any other I recall. I had to edit out half of my comments from this video because they were mostly creative insults. However, one piece I cut out is worth repeating here: It’s my opinion that the reason PC Cotton and PC Buckle were so aggressive and combative to this teenager is because PC Lauren Buckle - the driver of the police vehicle - was clearly not paying due care and attention to the road. Perhaps both her and her cuckold colleague were so incensed by the possibility that Buckle could have got the suspension from driving she so richly deserves, they bullied and threatened this poor lad into submission. It’s a common tactic of the police to mask their own criminality by transposing it onto the victim. Irrespective of their motives, these two officers are the epitome of the very worst of modern day police officers and they need to find themselves a job more suited to their vile tendencies. Hopefully I can help them on their way of leaving the police force as promptly as possible.

Perfect example by two Police officers on how to alienate the youth of today. Had the lad came across as rude then yes then in the words of the fist officer “ Be assertive “ . In fact the lad was calm and polite . Which couldn’t be said of the so called professionals they handled the situation very poorly.

And we have to pay for that tyrant. Good job Crimebodge.

And there they have just turned a decent young man against the police, another job well done, absolute bellends.

They keep accusing him of being argumentative but his tone is polite whereas they are both using such aggressive tones.

Christ alive, imagine bullying a child full stop. Let alone in uniform 💀

We need to all do what we can to keep this channel alive ...

3 mins in and I'm fuming. The boy did well to keep his calm.

female cop is speaking down to him like a pissed off teacher, about “attitude” which is none of her concern.

Attitude! this waste of taxpayers money pair of cops needs to be educated urgently in respect, the traffic law and should apologise (not that they ever would)

swearing in the presence of a member of public is used all the time by police as Alarm, Harassment & Distress.

Aggressive, threatening and abusive attitude.....why the foul language?? That's another teenager that is going to have zero respect for the police for the rest of his life ! Well done police, on your social skills !!!

Josh you come over head and shoulders above these two incompetent fools. You can see why this sad country is a basket case. Your parents have done a good job.

Well done for him for actually putting up for them, it’s so hard not to leave an argument when it’s clear the other people have no intention of being decent

Have I committed a crime? Have I disturbed the peace? No? Bye!

I want those two out of a job and publicly shamed, so angry.

I can’t believe what I just heard the police using the f word in against a child, absolutely disgraceful behaviour from an adult let alone a police officer . I will be emailing the chief constable of Staffordshire today to express my concerns that his offices are behaving in such a manner I will also Email their local MP

Absolutely disgusting behaviour from two police Constables who should know better

I'm a teacher. Bullies make me sick. Would hate to think one of my students would get spoken to like this by the "Police". These two "cops" are bullies.

These are uniformed gangsters.

Respect to Josh for keeping his cool. I don’t think I would have been so accommodating!

with the hindsight of it now being 2024, the police telling a youth that 'obstructing the highway' is an offence, but, being unable to remove Just Stop Oil and other social nuisances from doing just that, blocking roads, is a cynical irony.

Look if I were a cop and I saw a teenager do something I perceived as dangerous I would have also wanted to have a talk - adults should do such to teach the younger generation. However this type of interaction does not achieve the goal of such a conversation - rather the opposite.

If this is the standard of policing in the UK now, it's pretty depressing.

Comes to something when a mature 16 yr old kid gives a lesson in dignity, clean articulation and common sense to a couple of keystones🙄

I guess if i ever get stopped by police and they smile even somewhat i will threaten to throw them in the back of my car and take them home for being rude.

Outrageous!...Don't they have anything better to do?

This lad should be proud of himself. Those two officers should be ashamed of their rude and aggressive behaviour.

The officers' behaviour was disgusting. Had this been my son, I'd be livid.

and they claim have so much work to do they cant solve real crimes and attend real events; to busy going after children crossing the road .