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The Independant Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has failed with it?s attempt to block Channel 4 news from showing new footage moments before the death of  Ian Tomlinson.
You can view the video here.
The question is why would the IPCC want to block this video? They say it?s because the footage “would potentially damage” its investigation. How would [...]

Surely the death of Ian Tomlinson must now be regarded as murder after a new post mortem has found he died from an abdominal haemorrhage not a heart attack after being pushed to the ground by police during the G20 protests.
The statement from the City of London Coroners Court overturns the initial assessment that [...]

Following on from my post last week about the Police?s role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests another video has emerged following more Police brutality at a vigil in honour of Mr Tomlinson. In this instance a woman is struck in the face with the back of the officer?s hand and [...]

Last week there were G20 protests were held in London and one man, Ian Tomlinson, died during the protests from an apparently unrelated heart attack. The police said that protesters hurled bottles as they tried to help the man, but over the last couple of days the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) started an investigation [...]