Ian Tomlinson: Media Conspiracy?
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UK media has jumped on the bandwagon that the police murdered Ian Tomlinson, but look at the evidence.
Read any newspaper or watch the news and you are told the story of how the police violently struck an innocent man and left him to die in the street during the London G20 protests. It is a clear case of creating a story and picking out any evidence that fits. Similar to the politician’s search weapons of mass destruction.
If you watch the full video you clearly see the police slowly moving down the street telling people to move back. A standard tactic to control the protests. Mr Tomlinson is shown loitering around some bicycles in baggy clothes with his hand in his pockets, with his back to them. He makes no attempt to move. It could easily give the appearance that he is a trouble maker holding a weapon in his pocket, planning to attack the police. Even though in reality he was innocent, not even protesting.
When the police reach him they give him a gentle nudge and tell him to move back. He takes a step and returns to loitering. Then an over zealous police officer gives him a shove to move him back and retaining the police line. Mr Tomlinson falls to the ground, quickly gets up and starts complaining at the police. A protester helps him to his feet and he walk off into the crowd. A few minutes later he collapses in the crowd and dies.
Collapsing in a crowd is highly dangerous and he could have easily be stepped on, causing the internal bleeding identified by the second post mortem. Once alerted to the collapse the police had to quickly move in and form a cordon around him to protect Mr Tomlinson from the crowd and paparazzi while medical help arrived.
Perhaps it is the rise of citizen journalist giving the media the story on the spot, while the police try to get the facts straight before making a statement. When the police try to rush out information to journalists they are accused of any errors being deliberate coverup attempt.
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You write: “He makes no attempt to move.” – That is not correct. The police had previously moved him down 3 different sreets for a period of 10 minutes, allegedly having beeten him twice during that journey.
He had asked the police twice to be able to walk home, and the police had denied him his rights to walk home from the workplace.
You wrote: “It is a clear case of creating a story and picking out any evidence that fits” – no it is anything but “CLEAR”, and you yourself are picking out evidence to fit your “story”.
Your article is heavily biased and does not present both sides of the story. It does not mention that the police had removed their ID and was wearing a hoodie style mask.
You have not mentioned that the police put out a story that is heavily refuted by many eye witnesses. Also this one not just one sinlge event – there were many similar acts of police brutaltiy that are bing investigated with 145 complaisn to the IPCC.
What exactly is your agenda, apart from portraying the point of view that you want people to beleieve without question. Were you there? No.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/19/ipcc-police-g20-protests
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This item does not fit that bill. It is a distortion of what happened. There are 90 complaints, three of which involve unprovoked police assaults. And the media are not leading this, they are following citizen journalism. http://greenerblog.blogspot.com/search/label/civil%20liberty
I am not claiming I know what happened. My argument is that the media has failed to provide enough evidence to justify the ‘police beat man to death and try to cover it up’ narrative. The shove in the video, is justified force in my opinion and unlikely to have caused abdominal bleeding in a normal person. So I suggest either it was a freak accident or something else happened.
With hundreds of police and thousands of protesters, 3 alleged unprovoked attacks is very impressive. Especially since they are single strikes not Rodney King style beatings.