One would assume that part of this job is to rule out folk who are not causing trouble -say, for example, when they are walking away from police with their hands in their pockets?
Which is why we should all be interested to note that FIT officers were present at the G20 protest and were seen, on the Guardian and the Channel Four footage, just standing around as if nothing was wrong. They also appear to have colluded with the assaulter in a conspiracy of silence for the week following the death of Mr Tomlinson.
This is because the officer who attacked Ian was NOT a bad apple, he was following Met tactical policy. As far as the Officers present were concerned there was nothing wrong with what was happening. It was a perfectly normal way for an officer to behave.
The fact that a great many front line officers in these circumstances hide their identities by covering their faces and removing their ID numbers is not a 'wardrobe malfunction' either. This too is common practice and allows individual officers to whack whomever they like, whenever they like.
Last Wednesday was NOT a riot. 5,000 protesters were kettled into a small area and (mysteriously) a branch of the most despised banking institution in the country was left unguarded. This is suspicious. What's less suspicious is that 3 or 4 of the angrier protesters smashed it up. Watched by a few dozen photographers, who chose to show this 'action' rather than the footage of side streets were innocent people were being beaten by the police. The fact that this footage (mysteriously) appeared when someone died is also suspicious. Why was this footage (which it is very much in the public's interest to see) not shown AT ALL until a man died?
Anyway, it wasn't a riot, it was a peaceful protest and the vast majority of the violence was perpetrated by the police against innocent members of the public.
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