Ian Tomlinson - No Charges

Anonymous

Actually, the world would probably be better, but less pretty without Wales.

Oh, and the word is "leech" you ill-educated moron.

blister pus

butcher of bakersfield wrote:

I do think he was being provocative though. And I know I'm not alone in that opinion. Hands in the pockets or not, it looks very much to me like he's taunting the police, deliberately blocking their way.

Which is exactly why people like you and that copper shouldn't be any where near a uniform dealing with the public and that copper should be stacking tesco shelves right now or something equally less demanding. If you can't differentiate between deliberate meandering and someone with a wobble on who's struggling through drink on their way home from work then you aren't worth a sh!t in a job and situation like that and deserve to be publicly fucked in the ass over it.

interesting to note that English football crowds haven't been policed that way for years.

butcher of bakersfield wrote:

What really grates me, is the witch hunt attitude instigated by the media. That copper was tried and sentenced on the day that footage came out. There was some far worse alleged assaults committed by the police that day.

Well there was by all accounts and was it not for the fact that the American taking the main footage having a public spirited conscience coming forward to the Guardian and making sure it got in the right hands and got seen the world would have been none the wiser.

IcarusGreen

butcher of bakersfield wrote:

supersonic wrote:

Can we not also tar all police with the same brush? My brother is currently in the force, and my uncle served for 30 years. Both are very respectable people, in a difficult job.

I don't think they done much wrong. One copper got a little over-enthusiastic, quite possibly fueled by adrenalin, and almost certainly provoked, in a situation that had potential to become volatile very quickly. If there job was to track down criminals and call them very naughty boys they wouldn't be much use to us.

There are cases of real police brutality, but this really isn't one of them. It was clearly an accidental death, if not of natural causes. It annoys me when the guys protecting us are branded criminals, and Roaul Moat is a hero..

100% agree

supersonic

The officer involved is, I believe, in a disciplinary hearing as we post, citing misconduct.

The CPS didn't proescute for manslaughter because they could not prove beyond reasonable doubt the cause of death. But what about ABH?

Northwind

sheepsteeth wrote:

yeah but the 2 things which separate us form the animals are thumbs and generalizing about people we dont know.

no ones gonna stop me from doing either of those things. my grandad fought the muslims to give me the freedom to be a cheesewand.

I know it's a bit late but this is a man at the peak of his game people, learn from it!