Please don't forget Ian Tomlinson

"An investigation by the BBC Radio 4 programme The Report will tomorrow find that Patel should not have been on the Home Office register when he was appointed to conduct the postmortem on Tomlinson by the City of London coroner.

Patel was not in a group practice, did not participate in peer reviewing, and did not have a contract with any police force, the programme finds, meaning he did not meet criteria for forensic pathology set out by the Home Office in 2006. The Report also claims the GMC could have prevented Patel from conducting further forensic autopsies in 2005, following a complaint over misdiagnosis in another case.

There is mounting pressure for the inquest into Tomlinson's death to be taken out of the hands of the coroner, Paul Matthews. Lawyers, politicians and supporters of the Tomlinson family have questioned the independence of Matthews and called for a high court judge to be placed in charge of the case." Report by The Guardian newspaper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/19/ian-tomlinson-pathologist-not-qualified

Matthews has consistently refused to explain why he chose Patel to conduct the first postmortem. He declined to take part in the BBC programme, which also found that he refused two IPCC officials access to the original postmortem while it was being conducted by Patel.

The Report, which will be broadcast at 8pm, also points to City of London police involvement in the selection of Patel. The force, which ran the initial investigation into Tomlinson's death and tried to convince his family there was nothing suspicious about his collapse, "approved" the appointment of Patel and paid £2,500 toward his fee.

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[Pantherandpolitics]

The reason I put this video up was to show the methods used by police against ordinary citizens, and to show that some police are themselves posing a danger to the general public. This man was clearly not protesting or demonstrating, he was clearly not a threat to the officers nor was he doing anything illegal or wrong. He was walking in Britain where he's allowed to walk. Drunk? Maybe. But that is no reason to attack an unsuspecting innocent man let alone any other. Minimal force? Bollox!

[andysheepleton]

Sadly Mr. Tomlinson may have been too drunk to cooperate. He is clearly moving very slowly in the video that appears to show police attempting to move him more quickly from point A to point B. Had this not occurred on a day filled with run ins with other non-cooperative and aggressive protesters I am certain there would have been a different outcome.

During protests police are allowed to push non-compliant members of the public, however not at the expense of those unable to comply. How sad.

[Pantherandpolitics]

@andysheepleton If a person is causing an obstruction to police work then a policeman has the powers to arrest him. I don't know of any legal reason or lawful excuse for anyone let alone a police officer, to throw his weight to the back of a man who is walking along with his hands in his pockets minding his own business. Was he was incapable of understanding what was going on? If so then that was more reason to not do what that cop did to him. He was not part of the G20 protests either.

[andysheepleton]

@Pantherandpolitics He was just a poor drunken man trying to get home from work. Sadly he ended up in the middle of hundreds of people who were intentionally disobeying and antagonizing the police. Were it not for the lawless hooligans his inability to comply with a lawful order to vacate a cordoned off area never would have been mistaken for an unwillingness to comply. What a tragedy, he wasn't some thoughtless political agitator, just a poor drunken man trying to get home.

[andysheepleton]

@zooboo55 Being drunk does not mean a person can be abused, and in a perfect world being drunk would not put a person in greater danger, but sadly when you take a large group of lawless hooligans, put a helpless drunk amongst them it wasn't safe for that helpless person to be in the middle of the chaos that the hooligans created

The violent history of the G20 protests certainly call for firm police control. Sad and tragic that a confused, frustrated, helpless drunk man got caught in the middle

[zooboo55]

@andysheepleton " Sadly Mr. Tomlinson may have been too drunk to cooperate" Not unlawful to be drunk. "During protests police are allowed to push non-compliant members of the public" Whatttttttttttttttttttttt WTF are you on, Police can't push you for not being a subservient. "non-cooperative and aggressive protesters" Are which makes it LAWFUL to go around backhanding women and pushing people to the floor. Comply???? Men in uniform have NO POWER.

[TheWelshie1]

Reports say that cop was well known for being a THUG .He should have gone to jail for what he done

[Miller6616]

Police state Britain ,isn't it great when Lefties rule :(