Why did Ian Tomlinson die?

User 'anonymous' did: report at Sat Aug 22 02:24:29 +0000 2009. User 'anonymous' did: report at Sat Aug 22 12:49:56 +0000 2009.

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true After a big media outcry about police trying to safe the man's life coming under a <a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670349-details/Ring+of+steel+keeps+demos+away+from+world+leaders/article.do" title="evening standard">"barrage of missiles"</a>, the story was first put right by eyewitnesses, coming forward with a written <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1019" title="statement 1">statement</a> and <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/1038" title="video">interview</a>, saying that protesters did everything they could to help the man, but police forcefully moved them on and refused to talk to them or the ambulance dispatcher on the phone of a person who had called 999. As the public had to witness during the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1024" title="feature">who was shot in the head seven times</a>, the British Police sometimes seems to lack in truthfulness. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson" title="observer">Observer</a> | <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167629/Man-died-heart-attack-G20-protests-violently-attacked-riot-police.html" title="daily mail">Daily Mail</a> | <a href="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/politics/witnesses-say-police-assault-claimed-protestor-s-life-$1285830.htm" title="inthenews">InTheNews</a> | <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6041399.ece" title="times">Times</a> update: (9/04/09) Guardian publishes <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/g20-video-ian-tomlinson-death">new video refuting police claim</a> of a barrage of missiles / hail of bottles, and confirming witness statements. update: the Guardian has now published their witness statments <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/g20-protest-police-assault" title="guardian witness statements">here</a>. update: The IPCC has issued a <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1080" title="ipcc">press release</a>. 32

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Countless accounts of police brutality have surfaced around the protests on April 1st and 2nd, be it the detention of protesters at Bank for hours [<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1036" title="report">1</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1056" title="report">2</a>], the vicious attack on the peaceful Climate Camp [<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/971" title="report">report</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/993" title="video">video</a>], including children, or the raids on the Convergence Center [<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1007" title="pics and report">1</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1009" title="pics and report">2</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1051" title="pics and report">3</a>] and RampARTs [<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1002" title="pics and report">1</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1005" title="pics and report">2</a>]. Not to mention the <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1060" title="report">police aggression</a> at an event to commemorate the death of Ian Tomlinson and demand an independent inquiry [<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1060" title="report">1</a>|<a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1082" title="report">2</a>]. Now <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1067" title="statement 2">new eyewitness statements</a> corroborate the indications that policing of the protests is, at least in part, responsible for the death of a bystander. The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/apr/07/g20-police-assault-video" title="video g20 police assault on the guardian">Guardian relased a video</a> on Tuesday, showing Tomlinson being pushed to the ground by a police officer. On the same day another <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1057" title="pics">march</a> was held in the face of police brutality and to demand an inquiry into Ian Tomlinson's death, with the <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/1055" title="video">announcement</a> that the police policy of containment would be taken to European Human Rights Courts and an <a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/kettling/" title="online petition">online petition</a> can now be signed.