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His hands were in his pockets, walking away when they hit him.
A third post-mortem examination on Ian Tomlinson, who died at a G20 protest in London minutes after he was pushed over by a policeman, has been requested.
The request to the City of London coroner is thought to have come from the representatives of an officer interviewed about the death on 1 April.
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A first pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, concluded that Mr Tomlinson died from coronary artery disease.Dr Nat Cary carried out a second test and found evidence of hardening of Mr Tomlinson’s heart but said it was not sufficient to have caused the man’s death.
He concluded abdominal bleeding had caused his death.
The constable at the centre of the allegations was filmed hitting Mr Tomlinson with his baton and throwing him to the ground.
I think you’ll find the in the fineprint of the social contract, the ‘protect and server’ relates to the elites, and not the average Joe minding his own business on the street. In that context, the cops did nothing wrong.
#27: But would have become what it has if the video hadn’t been put up on YouTube which is on the Interwebitubes?
#32: I would reckon so. Most people still turn to TV and newspapers for their source of (mis)information. Unfortunately, it’s not blogs and youtube, like some people would like it to be…
#3 – Please, please promise to never, ever , ever become a policeman or any kind of public official.
Since when does a man walking home from work, obviously trying to simply let the police pass him by, suddenly become a potential terrorist ?
Why dont you piss of home so you can sit there chanting ‘USA,USA.USA!’ in front of images of dead arab children. Idiot
“(the narrator says it was 7 at night?) and the police are now telling you to go home, i would suggest you listen.”
If you’d actually read up about this, you’d realise that he was actually trying to go home, but the police wouldn’t let him. It’s called “kettling”. They surround the entire area, protesters, journalists, completely unconnected people, and just hold them there for several hours. No food. No water. Having to piss in the street.
He kept on trying different streets that would lead him home, and kept on getting turned back. No wonder he wasn’t in a hurry to walk *away* from his home.
So apparently in this age of constant daily terrorist attacks in every town village city and metropolis in the world, the only thing the police can do, when every man, woman, boy, girl, toddler and babe-in-arms could be holding a bomb, gun or triggering device, is to just go about with guns blazing all the time.
“Kill ’em all; let God sort ’em out.”
Sick sick sick
I don’t have a problem with the police killing protesters. In fact, there are a few right wing nut protesters that the police should set their sights on.
Doesn’t look anything like the police actions during the Chicago protests in the mid-60’s. Does this mean that all Brits are pantywaists who can’t take a hit?
?…how does one die of massive internal injuries in the stomach by being shoved in the upper back? Obviously….he was beaten in the ambulance on the way to the hospital…like any good conspiracy story.
Conservatives on this board, as usual: “He deserved death for not kissing the feet of the authority figure!”
Conservatives are sheep that are soooo ready for their Nazi shepherds.