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Thread #124618   Message #2756230
Posted By: Folkiedave
30-Oct-09 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK: Police State
Subject: RE: BS: UK: Police State
I'm glad Folkiedave brought up Orgreave because that is what went wrong with the prosecution of those arrested there was no coverage of the events - but one thing is undeniable stones and bricks were thrown which is not part of a peaceful protest or within the law and the first man to be injured that day at 08:00hrs was a policeman, PC Akers.

Remember the iconic Orgreave picture? It was of Lesley Boulton with a policeman on horseback about to try and smash her head in with a truncheon. And she wasn't a stone thrower. The other one was of a policeman beating seven bells of shit out of a miner who bare chested and laid out on the bonnet of his car.

The 93 miners arrested charged with riot were acquitted - because the police lied and it was obvious in court that they had done so. Orperhaps you think the judges in Sheffield Crown Court were sympathetic to the miners.

And your explanation of the death of Ian Tomlinson?

Remember - if you are innocent then you have nothing to worry about? Well he was innocent and he's dead.