British police brutality goes unpunished
Ian Tomlinson died during the G20 protests in London at which he was an innocent by-stander. The Metropolitan Police at first tried to cover up their involvement in the death of an otherwise healthy man by saying Mr Tomlinson had had a heart attack, unrelated to the serious head trauma he received when Met officers pushed the unarmed man to the ground. A second post-mortem revealed this was a lie. Mr Tomlinson’s family have since had to suffer a third post-mortem on Ian’s body, at the request of the Met who are contesting the previous result. The police tactics at the G20 were beyond heavy handed. They were brutal. As yet no police officers have been brought to justice over Ian Tomlinson’s murder or any of the other crimes perpertrated by the Met during the G20.
See this article from The Guardian for more details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/apr/07/g20-protest-death-police-assault.
