On April 1st 2009 a man, Ian Tomlinson died after being struck by a police officer, PC Simon Harwood at the anti-G20 protests in London. From that moment on the British state has done everything in it's power to make sure that the police officer would never face lawful punishment. This included getting a dodgy pathologist to preform a fraudulent autopsy, smearing the victim and his family in the press, banning the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) from bringing charges, preventing the General Medical Council (GMC) from striking the pathologist off the medical register and even staging a high profile and premature Coroner's Inquest to prejudice any evidence that could possibly be used in a criminal trial.
However in the same time period Britain saw the student protests which became some of the most violent rioting see on the UK mainland since the miners strike in the 1980's. At these protests the police themselves were very much the focus of the demonstrators anger including a high profile incident in which a metal fire extinguisher was thrown at police officers from the roof of a building. Along with other less widely reported incidents this violence quickly destroyed the police's desire to protect their brother officer and today (24/5/11) the CPS finally announced that PC Simon Harwood would face manslaughter charges with his first court appearance coming on June 20th 2011.
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