BBC lie about events surrounding Ian Tomlinson's death

BBC website lies about events surrounding PC Simon Harwood's killing of Ian Tomlinson

PC Simon Harwood

PC Rob Ward

Police lies defame protestors

Today, 18 June 2012, BBC News reported that innocent pedestrian Ian Tomlinson was killed at the G20 protest in London, 1 April 2009, as the result of a "gratuitous act of aggression by a lone (police) officer" - Metropolitan Police TSG officer PC Simon Harwood from Carshalton - "whose blood was up". The BBC imply this statement was made by prosecuting QC Mark Dennis, and if so Mark Dennis should choose his words more carefully, as Simon Harwood was not alone in wishing to attack G20 protestors, and many of Simon Harwood's police colleagues actively contributed to events which helped hasten Ian Tomlinson's death and actively participated in many stages of the subsequent cover-up.

Throughout the day PC Simon Harwood and other police officers hid their ID numbers, and an hour after Ian Tomlinson was killed, PC Rob Ward from Enfield posted on Facebook saying he "can't wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20" (meaning at the next day's protest outside the G20 summit in London's Docklands). The police lied to the media, resulting in news reports that police had been "pelted with bricks as they help dying man", when in fact this had not happened, and instead the police had ignored their victim's pleas for help, forced away an ITV photographer and a medical student who'd tried to give medical aid, and refused to co-operate with an ambulance crew who were trying to save Ian Tomlinson's life.

The BBC's own dishonesty comes however in reporting that earlier in the day PC Simon Harwood had [quote] "tried to arrest a protester who he had seen trying to write something on the side of a police van", that "the demonstrator managed to wriggle free" and that Simon Harwood "then decided to join other officers who were on foot in Threadneedle Street". What really happened was that far from managing to "wriggle free" the protestor had his head smashed into the side of a van door by Simon Harwood, who then, rather than deciding "to join other officers" instead attacked a BBC cameraman and attacked a City worker before going off kill Ian Tomlinson. It would be much appreciated if the BBC would please stop lying about police brutality.

Simon Harwood's police colleagues then procured a fraudulent pathologist's report, and colluded with IPCC chairman Nick Hardwick in pretending no CCTV cameras overlooked the scene of Simon Harwood's attack. Among many other police attacks during the same protest, PC Delroy Smellie slapped and truncheoned female protestor Nicola Fisher, and other police officers truncheoned and kicked peaceful Climate Camp activists as they held their hands in the air chanting "this is not a riot".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18482967

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173178/I-wait-bash-G20-hippies-Met-Police-officer-probed-Facebook-rant.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tomlinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_G-20_London_summit_protests

Ian Tomlinson

Comments

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Screen-cap of the entire BBC article

18.06.2012 21:41

I'm not disparaging EVERYONE in the BBC here by any means, but the police know they can't completely wriggle out of this one, so their friends in the BBC are helping them peddle the "lone cop" angle, so they can try to damp down public anger, and so that the IPCC, Met Police Press Office, CPS, pathologist, all the TSG thugs who knocked seven shades out of innocent, often female, protestors and even City workers, and the other cops, officials and scum journos who participated in this catalogue of deception have some hope of trying to cover their lying backsides

Goochie

TSG Command Structure, with names

18.06.2012 21:54

David Hutchinson

take care

18.06.2012 22:35

Lets all be aware that comments on this trial may be held in contepmt of court.

The last thing we need to do is put the trial at risk.

just saying

idiots

19.06.2012 01:14

You idiots can't help being thick can you?
The PC and his legal team are relying on idiots like you to prejuduce the trial. It looks like you are more than willing to score the own goal they know you will gift them.

anon

Prejudice trial?

19.06.2012 05:42

How exactly can a trial be prejudiced by discussion of the case, in public, by people not sitting on the jury, or taking part in court proceedings?

Will the BBC and other media be held in contempt of court, or only indymedia readers?

Just asking.

Healthy discussion

still idiots

19.06.2012 09:13

When that "healthy discussion" involves some idiot blatatntly stating that the person on trial is already guilty and states it on a public medium which the jury could quite easily have access too, then you will find it is much easier for said person's legal team to cry foul and have the trial stopped as unfair. It's not rocket science. It's why all media outlets never state their "opinion" of a person's guilt or otherwise, until a jury has seen the evidence and passed judgement.You've had 3 years to vent your opinion, so why risk ruining a trial now? Unless as is most probable you are a police insider looking to provoke "healthy discussion" and thus aiding your, innocent until proved otherwise, pal.

They are are itching for some idiot to say the wrong thing. Keep doing their job though, as it's "healthy".

rumpole

yep, still more idiots

19.06.2012 09:20

It's also why every other news media website makes comments unavailable on any stories to do with a major trial. Because they can't trust the idiots among their readership not to get them in legal trouble. All except indymedia who obviously don't care what their resident idiots say.

rumpole

If anyone's trying to prevent a fair trial it's the cops

19.06.2012 09:48

As for the accusation that this post involves "some idiot blatatntly (sic) stating that the person on trial is already guilty" that claim is 100% factually false, the post does NOT say this, so I can only assume the person pretending it did must be a police officer sticking their oar in. This report is not saying ANYTHING that hasn't already been reported in the mainstream media, so there's no way it can prejudice the trial any more than any of those mainstream media reports. The question here is not whether or not PC Simon Harwood killed Ian Tomlinson, but whether, or to what extent, the court will find in mitigation, and that remains an open question, to be decided by a hopefully fair trial. The issue this post is raising is the context of overall police violence on the day, and the context of other assaults by Simon Harwood - about which the BBC report factually lied

As for the question of a fair trial, seeing as how the police repeatedly lied and then leant on the coroner, on the IPCC and on the CPS, if anyone's guilty of trying to prevent a fair trial it's the Metropolitan Police

Sally

@trolls

19.06.2012 11:14

you trolls are becoming a tad annoying.
i think he did it, i think he murdered ian tomlinson. i think he's guilty. you know why?
i will list some of the reasons

1) media initially reporting, based on police reports, that Ian collapsed of natural accord, that he had not been in contact with police.

2) that police lied, blatantly, and this is all researchable, about him being in contact with cops before he collapsed, and also lied about coming under attack whilst trying to help ian after he had collapsed

3) video footage showing a vicious assault on ian, by PC harwood MINUTES before he collapsed

4) the first coroners report stating he had died of a heart attack, not from injuries

5) seperate coroners report stating he had infact died from internal heamoraging, i believe in his abdomen.

and there are a few more reasons, but the most compelling is the video footage showing, quite clearly, an unprovoked attack on a man by a cop, pc harwood, on ian tomlinson moments before he collapsed and died.

if a 'normal' member of the public goes out and pushes a guy or woman to the ground, or hits them and then pushes him or her to the ground and they die minutes later of internal injuries, believe you me, the state would come down hard on them and it would be murder or manslaughter charges for those involved. and it would almost certainly lead to a conviction. with a bit of research, several cases in the news highlight when other people get done for similar attacks and go to jail.

this cop needs to be shown for what he is, a bully, a fascist, a dirty rotten murdering pig.

and if you trolls dont like it, fuck you.

pc harwood is a murderer.

francesca

haha

19.06.2012 13:23

well done francesca. PC Harwood will buy you a drink when he is accquitted.

haha

I get it

19.06.2012 13:34

In future all we have to do to get activists acquitted is post to Indymedia and say they are guilty.

This will prejudice their trials and they will walk free.

Whilst the jury are poking around for obscure sites, they'll probably find this one as well:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/PC-Simon-Harwood-is-a-murderer/105001796221177?v=wall&viewas=0

In the event that PC Harwood is allowed to walk because of a post on Indymedia, it would be a useful time to ask the state to account for the Gateway 303 posts on Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472575.html

If they came from cops, who is to say that these posts haven't come from cops as well?

There is no justice in the court system....

The jury

19.06.2012 13:35

have been requested not to study this case on the internet.

I'm guessing unless indy recieve a court order asking to remove these posts etc they obviously haven't.

The trial continues. You can laugh as much as you want you fuckwit (>>"@haha") nothing changes it's as simple as that.

non-aryan

Stick to the facts

19.06.2012 22:31

It is a fact that Harwood killed Tomlinson - that no-one disputes - whether or not Harwood will be found innocent or guilty of manslaughter or of murder is for the court, in their infinite wisdom, to decide. What this post highlights is the BBC lying in the report mentioned, which is a separate issue, so this post is not in contempt of court. As for any cops who might be hoping to manufacture a false contempt allegation in the hopes of getting their pal off the hook, you should be aware that in contrast to this Indymedia post The Spectator magazine really WAS in contempt of court with the Stephen Lawrence trial, but his killers Gary Dobson and David Norris got 14 and 15 year jail terms anyway

Have a nice day ;)

Barry Don

No comment

19.06.2012 22:40

What absolute rubbish Rumpole is talking. The jury have been given the standard warning to ignore media reports. End of.

Anarchist

just desserts

20.06.2012 08:59

Anyone who reduces the number of racist, millwall supporting thugs is alright by me. OBE for the gavver please.

rumplestiltskin

End of.

20.06.2012 09:06

there you go 'anarchist

anarcho1

Trying to shed some light

20.06.2012 14:13

The legal test is "substantial risk of serious prejudice". In other words the court would have to believe that comments on this forum presented a substantial risk of seriously prejudicing the trial.

I'm not a lawyer or a judge, but I would have thought not.

Nevertheless, newspapers, radio stations, big blog sites, TV stations all need to be careful - because they could arguably meet the "substantial risk of serious prejudice" criteria.

This could result in two nasty things happening

1) Large fine and possible imprisonment for the editorial team
2) A guilty party successfully appealing against an conviction.

And we wouldn't want either of those things, either for those lovely people at Indymedia, or a potentially guilty party (who is, of course,...ahem...presumed innocent until proven otherwise).

Best to all roll our necks in, just for a bit...in my humble opinion m'lud.

Rich

@ rich, ha ha and any other apologists

20.06.2012 21:46

sorry people, but i aint shutting up. pc harwood is a fucking fascist pig, a murderer and a bully.

if the jury look on the internet thats their fault, the fault lies with them. not me, or the individual that posted the original article. the jury were told not to look on the internet. i wasnt told to not comment or post articles. you are missing the point. juries are always banned from reading about suspects or digging for info on them during trials, from robbery trials, rape trials....loads of cases that we dont hear about.

so according to trolls on here, we all shut up until the trial is finished?? and who does that serve?
the cops, the courts, the system!

police kill all the time, young men in custody, young men falling from blocks of flats in dodgy circumstances, young men strangled, shot and tazered. people with mental health issues crushed and killed. no convictions ever.

fuck the police. i hope he gets convicted, sent to jail and tooled up in the showers so his head cracks open. maybe then harwood will realise what its like to be on the recieving end of 'disproportionate' violence...........

ACAB

francesca

Ian Tomlinson - More Cops Identified

21.06.2012 18:26

PC Andrew Moore, PC Colin Nye, PC Carl Small, PC Kerry Smith, PC Nicholas Jackson, PC Andrew Massey

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162228/Police-officer-accused-G20-killing-Ian-Tomlinson-outwitted-jeering-crowd-moments-shoved-newspaper-seller.html

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