Black Country news and blogs Sunday 20 April 2014
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The recent M42 incident: listen to Councillor Brown with brains in gear
Our Solihull 1 Dec 13 
Was the M42 incident mishandled? Thousands of drivers and passengers queued – some for nine hours – when police closed the busy motorway in both directions last Saturday and organised a prolonged dialogue – 24 hours was quoted – with
a man threatening to jump from a bridge. . Police over-reacting? Were police compensating for many occasions in which they have been ‘trigger happy’, mistakenly breaking down doors of innocent householders…
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