Ok... this is stinking worse and worse
Apr. 20th, 2009 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessWe have a man at the G20 protests who died froma heart attack. The police assured us that they had had no contact with him before and only helped him afterwards.
They lied. Footage showed him being violently thrown to the ground. Ok, they said, that was it.
They lied. More footage showed him being attacked from behind by a policeman with a baton.
They lied, the police did not help him - they stood and watched him fall.
The investigators - forced on them by immense public outrage - claimed there was no CCTV footage of the area. He lied. There was and it came out (how STUPID a lie is this?! If there are 6 square inches of London NOT covered by CCTV I'd be damned surpirsed)
A second post mortem has been done. Ian Tomlinson died of internal bleeding. Not a heart attack. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6113960.ece They lied...
What the hell. Seriously this is fucked up to an unbelievable measure of fucked up. They killed this man and fought to cover it up over and over again - it's Menenzes all over again. The police seem to think they can kill with impunity and then lie about it. That they can protect killers - that the law they are supposed to uphold doesn't apply to them and the public they are supposed to protect and serve is meat to abuse at will.
More and more footage is emerging - of a man reeling and falling from a police right hook to the jaw. Of a woman slapped aside then batoned. Of a man with concussion from the police riot shield slammed into the BACK of his head.
And there the police stand with BALACLAVAS on and grey strips of cloth covering their identification numbers on their epaulettes. They've DELIBERATELY hidden themselves from accountability from their crimes - they've gone out, hidden, EXPECTING to commit crimes. Sure that their colleagues will keep their mouths shut (which they did) and that their superiors will lie for them (which they did).
It stinks. How can we have even the slightest respect for ANY police through this? Because the whole damn mess of them were involved in this. Dozens upon dozens have to have keept silent, have to have lied, have to have suppressed the truth. Hundreds must have seen the balaclavas, the masking cloth, the violence, the attacks, the killing - and NOT CARED AND NOT DONE ANYTHING.
These people cannot be trusted. And while it is this disgustingly widespread and while CONSENT AND APPROVAL for such vileness remains prevalent and the NORM in the police force then they destroy any trust any police can have.
I will not have police as my masters. I will not live knowing that thugs in uniform can attack and abuse me with the full protection and consent of their peers and superiors. I will not have my tax money pay for an army of people outside the law.
They lied. Footage showed him being violently thrown to the ground. Ok, they said, that was it.
They lied. More footage showed him being attacked from behind by a policeman with a baton.
They lied, the police did not help him - they stood and watched him fall.
The investigators - forced on them by immense public outrage - claimed there was no CCTV footage of the area. He lied. There was and it came out (how STUPID a lie is this?! If there are 6 square inches of London NOT covered by CCTV I'd be damned surpirsed)
A second post mortem has been done. Ian Tomlinson died of internal bleeding. Not a heart attack. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6113960.ece They lied...
What the hell. Seriously this is fucked up to an unbelievable measure of fucked up. They killed this man and fought to cover it up over and over again - it's Menenzes all over again. The police seem to think they can kill with impunity and then lie about it. That they can protect killers - that the law they are supposed to uphold doesn't apply to them and the public they are supposed to protect and serve is meat to abuse at will.
More and more footage is emerging - of a man reeling and falling from a police right hook to the jaw. Of a woman slapped aside then batoned. Of a man with concussion from the police riot shield slammed into the BACK of his head.
And there the police stand with BALACLAVAS on and grey strips of cloth covering their identification numbers on their epaulettes. They've DELIBERATELY hidden themselves from accountability from their crimes - they've gone out, hidden, EXPECTING to commit crimes. Sure that their colleagues will keep their mouths shut (which they did) and that their superiors will lie for them (which they did).
It stinks. How can we have even the slightest respect for ANY police through this? Because the whole damn mess of them were involved in this. Dozens upon dozens have to have keept silent, have to have lied, have to have suppressed the truth. Hundreds must have seen the balaclavas, the masking cloth, the violence, the attacks, the killing - and NOT CARED AND NOT DONE ANYTHING.
These people cannot be trusted. And while it is this disgustingly widespread and while CONSENT AND APPROVAL for such vileness remains prevalent and the NORM in the police force then they destroy any trust any police can have.
I will not have police as my masters. I will not live knowing that thugs in uniform can attack and abuse me with the full protection and consent of their peers and superiors. I will not have my tax money pay for an army of people outside the law.