No, I won't "give it a rest"
Your logic is like telling people people living in shit bits of the UK to stop moaning as they've got it worse in rural Bangladesh. It has no relevance at all.

The police were roundly criticised for their actions in policing the protests at the G20, and yet despite basically admitting they got it wrong and they will change, nobody has actually been rebuked for anything they have done.

I'm coming back to the Ian Tomlinson fact again, but it is very important. A man, who had nothing to do with the protests, is dead because of a policeman going gung ho and lashing out for no reason, and rather than try and restore confidence in a system by showing that, when mistakes are made, the police will admit it and deal with the problem in a reasonable manner, they have done nothing at all and the CPS appears powerless to act.

And that is what is disgraceful about this situation.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 13:48, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

You're right Al
It is wrong that the police are not held to account for individual actions. They are no longer public servants when they bash your head in, and their colleages should see to it that the reputation of the whole is maintained, not the reputation of the one.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 13:55, Reply)