A year ago today Ian Tomlinson died after being hit by a police man who had removed his numbers so he couldn't be identified.
Still no one has been held accountable for his death.
Immediately following this the police were quick to blame protesters for his death, saying they were hindering Tomlinson treatment, and they also claimed to of had no involvement, this was all quickly proved fabricated and lies, as video footage emerged. Clearly showing the policemen lunging out of the lines to for no reason assault Tomlison as he was walking away, with hands in pockets.
A policemen was cleared this week of assaulting a women at a protest following his death, despite there again being footage proving that the police were using excessive force when completely unnecessary.
For some reason slapping a women around the face and then hitting her with a baton for shouting is deemed 'reasonable force'.
I've seen this so much recently after protests, people accused of being aggressive or intimidating, and this justifying the presence of such large numbers of riot police, and then them arresting people. How much of a threat is a women shouting to a line of tooled up armoured (sometimes on horseback to) trained riot police...?
If a protester was to shove a policemen, and claim 'self defence' when questioned, they would of been charged instantly.
The justice system is meant to be for the people. The police there to protect.
Our human right to be able to voice our concerns and show are disapproval of subjects that affect us and the world as a whole are slowly being taken away.
More and more ridiculous laws are being put into place to stifle our right to protest, which in turn are allowing dodgy companies and industries to do as they please (and line the pockets of the government and bankers), without consultation of the public.
You would hope that with all this video footage that is now available after protests that things like this wouldn't be so easy for the police to get away with (they can't take away or break every ones cameras).
This evidence is being overlooked and rejected by judges and courts. It seems that a major problem is that the courts are against the people, we will always being in 2nd place when its us Vs them in court.
In America Oscar Grant was shot dead at point blank range in the back while being pinned face down on the floor.
This again was caught by multiple peoples mobile phones on a busy train station platform, this is one of few such case that have made it to trail, the policemen is awaiting trial for murder. His defence he thought his gun was a tazer...
It is clear from the videos not even a tazer was necessary with so many police on one person.
How can these injustices continue, these are the times we should be sitting up and taking notice. We have a right to protest, and even a right to protest, or challenge the reasons sometimes given when police attempt to arrest you for ridiculous reasons, or supposed 'crimes'.
We need to be letting everyone know that these things are happening constantly, and we have to stop them if we want to remain 'free'.
**Video footage of all these incidents can be seen on you-tube**
Killed by two point blank range shots to the head on a London tube, after a police mix up that lead to him falsely being identified as a terrorist suspect.
