I thought this for a while.
But the policeman who assaulted the chap probably isn't the bloke who found him. He probably had no idea the bloke he hit had died at first, and probably didn't for a few days.
It'd be completely impossible for the police to keep track of every single protestor, what contact they'd had with who, and where they'd been.
They probably shouldn't have come out so certain that they were innocent, but I doubt if the Police as a whole knew what had happened before the video footage linked it all together.
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It'd be completely impossible for the police to keep track of every single protestor, what contact they'd had with who, and where they'd been.
They probably shouldn't have come out so certain that they were innocent, but I doubt if the Police as a whole knew what had happened before the video footage linked it all together.