Ian Tomlinson death: police officer will not face criminal charges [View All]

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Source: Guardian (UK)

The police officer caught on video during last year's G20 protests striking a man who later died will not face criminal charges, the Crown Prosecution Service announced today.

Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, said there was "no realistic prospect" of a conviction, because of a conflict between the postmortems carried out after Tomlinson's death last year.

The newspaper seller died following the demonstrations on 1 April 2009 in central London. The official account that he died from a heart attack was undermined when the Guardian obtained video footage showing a riot officer striking the 47-year-old with a baton and shoving him to the ground shortly before he collapsed and died.

In a written statement the CPS admitted that there was sufficient evidence to show the officer had assaulted Tomlinson, but claimed a host of technical reasons meant he could not be charged...

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/22/ian-tomlinson-police-not-charged?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

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I invite all the usual police apologists to comment.

The UK is further down the road to a Police State than are we - by this decision the UK government makes it clear to its citizens that the police are free from any restraint of law.

Will be looking for the original video link to the assault.

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This link shows the violence of the unprovoked baton attack from the back on this unfortunate British man... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8x617_new-g20-footage-shows-ian-tomlinson_news

The cop makes a windup and takes a full force swing with his baton at the unprotected back of the unaware victim.

Oh, that's right, he is not a victim as no crime was committed - according to the British government.