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New Footage of Ian Tomlinson "raining" bottles...

John | 10.04.2009 00:08 | G20 London Summit

New Footage of Ian Tomlinson being force to move him whilst it was "raining" bottles, o.k. one was thrown but that was stopped by the protesters and police say that they weren't deliberately trying to mislead the public.. yeah right... my a*s.

New Footage...

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/g20-video-ian-tomlinson-death

John

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exactly - statement too misleading from the police

10.04.2009 05:14

Yep that is exactly what the early witness testimonies describe - one bottle or glass - and the crowd shouts out do not do that.

If you wanted to be generous to the police you could say well the situation may have changed a minute or so after the video was taken. But the witnesses that quickly came forward to give their accounts and comment on the press reports of police statements of a hail of bottles / missiles (and even at one stage before a retraction bricks) say that they were observing the scene until the ambulances arrived and there was categorically no hail of missiles at all:
 http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/1038

The initial statements from the police were clearly lies.

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