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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.
The police murdered this man; the cop scum who killed him should be placed on trial and in a prison cell for as many years as someone who kills a cop would spend.
Hmm, what would have had happened if they guy pushed the police back and that “pushing” policeman died of heart attack like him? The UK government would be playing “Long live the Queen” patriotic music till this day. Too bad it was a common man so the government doesn’t give a damn…let his family suffer cuz he was walking around with hands in his pockets.
This is why they turned all the traffic cams off, This same sort of thing would happen in the states. Most cops have something to prove, just to bad some poor guy had to die.
Possible the guy also had a few too many drinks, and even legal medications in his blood. It’s odd that he was moving soooooo slooooooo. He might have been pretty tipsy. In the stream, it sounded like there was mention of medics showing up. If he was treated by the medics, there could have been an adverse reaction in his blood of some medicine they gave him.
Eh, wtf… As Paddy0 probably figures, why not just publicly behead the lot of them. They’re all commies any way! We need more of a police state in this world to protect the masses of billionaires. After all, common people should not be allowed to reproduce.
My REAL thinking — this is another case of “bad cop, no donut.” The cops are getting as bad as the thugs they are supposed to protect us from. There should be a draft, and people should not be allowed to have a career as a police officer, but rather serve for two years, after being trained. Maybe then they would understand that they serve the people, and they are not above the law. Today’s cops believe that they do not have to obey the law, because they ARE the law. If the person would have shoved anyone, and caused their death, there would be a legal price to pay. The same should hold true of police. If they are not trained in proper non-violent means of controlling the masses, then they should be. If they are trained in non-violent crowd control and persist to use violence, they should be stripped of their stinkin’ badges, and thrown in the clink, because they criminals.
He was just a guy on his way home from work, who police diverted into a G20 protest. He wanted to pass through the moving police cordon to get out, but was set upon by a constable.
Uncle Dave,
If you had been following the story you would’ve known that the movie and the whole incident was reported by Guardian, a UK newspaper and not “the internetz”. Misleading title, that’s all…
You have the right to protest…until we have had enough…then we get to kick your ass on a public sidewalk that you should be free to walk down.
Doesn’t sound like a right to me…
I can’t believe people are actually defending the police, or even find “they were trying to clear the street” to be an ok explanation of their conduct. He was WALKING in the street. The street is for walking. If a police officer would have tried that on me just for walking, I would have kicked him in the nuts. There is a big line between “clearing the streets” and assault. Just as you’re in your right to protect yourself from thugs, you’re in your right to protect yourself from the police, if needed. That being said, he probably had some kind of medical condition.
looks to me like the guy was being a pain, but it was uncalled for on the cop’s part to be a raging bully and the bigger ass. Cops need to remember they are people, first, and supposed to “protect the public” not brutalize someone who’s annoying him.
The cop other cops shouldn’t stand for a bully in their ranks….can’t trust bullies, EVER. They tend to chicken out and run and always prove to be unreliable backup.
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.