G20 Climate Camp

If you hippie faggots hadn't antagonized the police this would not have happened.

whilst i can understand why people are concerned about climate change i'm not too bothered. i've got a yacht and i can only see climate change being a benefit. lots more ocean to sail in and warmer weather at sea. i'm off to burn some trees and leave the engine on mine and my wifes car running whilst doing it.

Watch the shield of the riot policeman at about 2:02 - 2:09.

Looks like the Guardian picked up the video, guardian co uk /world/2009/apr/19/g20-police- video-climatecamp-tomlinson

Shame it doesn't appear to have more views (unless Youtube has disabled them as has been documented on other videos. )

What are the police trying to acheive here?

Around 2.12mins a few police men are very violently hitting out at the crowd with their shields, some are putting their shield on its side so it can be used with more power.

This is very aggressive behavior considering the crowd is moving back. The media should be alerted of this video.

if one wants to get a batton in the face they should push and shove the police.. while the police tell them to go away...

its clear that these people want a batton to the face. period.

So sad that it came to this - the climate camp was so peaceful, all cups of tea, cake and chanting...

The police have just widened the gap between 'us' and 'them' which doesn't help anyone.

It looks like police are the one pushing the people, and they are the one using weapons - shields to hit the public. don't understand why they are doing it? I can't see any one in the public in threatening behaviour. It is not Tianmen. It's London. Shocking to see such a behaviour of our police, who were provoking the violence.