Ian Tomlinson killed by PC Simon Harwood at G20 Protest

Fair Use publication of video obtained by The Guardian newspaper showing the police attack during the G20 Meltdown protest at the Bank of England, London, 1st April 2009, which led to the tragic death of Millwall fan Ian Tomlinson - a totally innocent man who was assaulted by the police.

In the words of even a Conservative newspaper like The Daily Mail "this video shows the moment newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was attacked from BEHIND by a baton-wielding police officer" [0:26] and (to quote The Daily Mail again) this evidence "contradicts the official police statement". It's just been reported that PC Rob Ward posted on Facebook saying he wanted to use the G20 protests to "bash some hippies", and that Ian Tomlinson almost certainly died from a head-wound...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/G20-Protest-Picture-Shows-Ian-Tomlin...

In showing an otherwise largely peaceful scene in which 2 protestors are clearly visible immediately coming to Ian Tomlinson's assistance [0:33], this video contradicts newspaper reports which repeatedly claimed that protestors ignored the injured man, and even that protestors attacked police who came (later, and clearly too late) to Ian Tomlinson's aid (there is "truth" in this allegation to the extent that other videos show one plastic water bottle being thrown and clearly missing the police). This evidence also contradicts the findings of the official "inquest", which concluded that the heart attack which killed Ian Tomlinson resulted from "natural" causes - as if being smacked in the legs with a nightstick [1:21] and knocked head first onto concrete [1:33] by a masked attacker could be described as a "natural" cause of death!

In my experience of taking part in this protest, the police were extremely aggressive from the outset. Officers armed with nightsticks, telescopic truncheons and sap gloves, then attack dogs and horses, and protected by helmets, shields, balaclavas and body armour, found the "courage" to behave with extreme hostility towards an initially peaceful crowd - well before any trouble was reciprocated. The police always knew perfectly well which of their number was responsible for this attack, and now that an officer has (a whole week later) been forced by public opinion to come forward, The London News has alleged that photographs show the officer had REMOVED the police ID numbers from his shoulders before the attack - signalling a clear intention to abuse police procedures and to evade detection for actions he planned to carry out during this protest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/apr/02/g20-protes...

This channel asserts a right to FAIR USE of video material on grounds of public interest (under the terms of US copyright law, Time Inc. v. Bernard Geis Associates, 293 F. 293 F. Supp. 130 SDNY, 1968).

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[porntogo]

To be fair, when you lot are having problems who do you call? Yeh, then you want the police there straight away and complain if they aren't there quick enough because they have to deal with protestors. The guy was clearly walking slowly in front of police to obstruct and antagonise them. Now! This doesn't mean that bowling the man over was the right course of action, but had the guy simply moved along promptly then nothing would have happened. its a high stress job remember.

[G20meltdown]

@porntogo Even if he was "walking slowly in front of police to obstruct and antagonise them" that's no fucking reason to kill him, since when was being mildly obstructive a capital offence you berk

[DarknessUnresolved]

So this perfectly INNOCENT man was just trying to get home when out of nowhere, he is assaulted by a yellow-jacket gestapo pig. The man (Ian) died just moments later. The police LIE and claim that protesters were throwing bottle and bricks at them. But ofcourse, this turns out to have been a bold-face LIE.

[rpiper138]

Would like to see this, but I don't watch videos with commercials.

[superstubes]

the copper over reacted !

[batmanjim1]

@G20meltdown agreed. its not a reason to kill him...put a gun to his head etc.....but give him a shuv? Maybe. i think we all agree the baton strike was well over the top, but a baton to the leg or a shuv out the way is not the same as killing a man on purpose...taking a gun to his head or an axe to his neck. In my eyes that cop had every right to push him out the way. Not to baton him though. But it turns out it was the push that killed him, not the baton. Not sure how I feel now. Just sad.

[DancesWithGhosts]

@Bladed0edge0razor and who pays the policemen ultimately ?

[yamaha0113]

That's why you are told from a young age, not to walk with your hands in your pockets

[DavyTom71]

@porntogo

Harwood's action was an abusive over-reaction. There are much better ways to deal with someone 'walking slowly' rather than bashing them with truncheons and pushing them on to concrete floors. The police and the CPS wanted this brushed under the carpet but too many people had seen what happened, so they gave in and decided to prosecute Harwood... and they only did that to take the heat off them

[onlymeleftonearth]

And who do people turn to, to investigate why the Crown Prosicution Service tried to initially push this under the table? Why could Kier Starmer and his CPS not see what is quite obvious to all of us watching this footage? And if Kier Starmer and the CPS could not initially see this, is it because they are corrupt or incompetant?