Maybe change to this embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ
Better quality version from the official guardian channel.

*promote

Invocations (promote) cannot be called by theneb because theneb is not privileged - sorry.

For a police officer... hands in pockets are bad. Walking perpendicular to the line of officers when it would seem pretty obvious to anyone in that situation that you should be moving away from them, is bad.

Once the guy did collapse, the protesters likely did obstruct efforts to help him... haven't seen any video of that yet.

Wrong place, wrong time.

>> ^TheSofaKing:
Wrong place, wrong time.


You are such a dick.

"... fresh pictures suggested he had removed his shoulder number and covered his face with a balaclava before hitting Ian Tomlinson with a baton and pushing him to the ground last week."
(The Guardian)

Getting hit by a drunk driver in a crosswalk is wrong place, wrong time.

Getting struck by lightening is wrong place, wrong time.

Getting crushed by an I-beam that broke free from a crane is wrong place, wrong time.

Getting bludgeoned on the back of the head by a cop who purposefully hid his identity is not wrong place, wrong time.

>> ^theneb:
Maybe change to this embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ
Better quality version from the official guardian channel.


Thanks!

Theres video of this and the aftermath from more than one angle. He was walking away from the officer who attacked him.

According to ITN after he was knocked down the protesters helped him to his feet, he said some things to the Police, walked around the corner and collapsed.

At that point an ITN staffer went to get Police help and described the Police as "uninterested". Then he received first aid from a group of Police officers.

At no point did protesters hinder the Police from giving aid.

Terrible stuff, clearly this officer is not worthy of the job, at worst it further discredits how crowd control is handled by the Police in London, wearing masks, why? A mild example being how the Police used their vans to block all sight of peaceful Tibet protesters from the visiting Chinese premier.