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Police video reveals horrific incident

steve | 21.09.2005 13:02 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

This press release from Howell's Solicitors about Anthony Green is pretty interesting. If your not familiar with the story it should come as no surprise to learn that Anthony Green is black.

Any news of this story elsewhere?

16th September.

http://www.howells-solicitors.com/newsdetail.php?id=67

Peter Mahy, the solicitor acting for Anthony Green, the young Sheffield man who was run over by a police car and seriously injured in an incident in 1999, today described newly released video footage of the incident as ‘horrific’. He called for the Independent Police Complaints Commission to revisit their decision last year not to re-investigate the case and for the Home Secretary to order an independent enquiry.

The video was finally released to Mr Green’s solicitors under the Data Protection Act, previous requests to access the footage having been refused. The video has never been seen by the public before and was not even viewed by the Magistrates when the police officer appeared in court on 10th March 2000.

Mr Mahy, a civil liberties specialist at Sheffield-based Howells, is concerned that the video has only been released now, over six years after the incident.

“ We have been acting for Mr Green in this case since 1999 and have known that video footage of the incident was in existence and yet it has taken over six years for this vital evidence to be released to the public.

“ The Magistrates never saw this video when the police officer appeared in court. DC Lawrence, the police officer involved, was fined a mere £250 and received five penalty points. He has not been disciplined in spite of our referring the matter to both the former Police Complaints Authority and the new Independent Police Complaints Commission.

“Now that this horrific video footage is in the public domain we believe that this whole case should be reviewed and the case re-opened. We call upon the Independent Police Complaints Commission to take a fresh look at the case and call upon the Home Secretary to order an independent enquiry. Given the video evidence, how can Mr Green or the public ever feel that justice has been done?”

For further information, please contact Kath Harding on 0114 201 8011, mobile 07710 490943.

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For more background info on this story see the National Civil Rights Movement:

http://www.ncrm.org.uk/campaigns/green.html

steve

Comments

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nothing ever changes

21.09.2005 16:37

Most major urban police forces in the UK recruit people precisely because they are RACIST THUGS. The ONLY personality trait that is not tolerated in an UK policeperson is disloyalty to the tribe.

So, sadly, where's the news. I mean, does precise and specific evidence like this EVER change anything. New Labour (New Reich) has carefully molded the UK police service into a frontline unit that will happily implement any of Blair's desires, no matter how racist, unlawful, or out and out murderous! UNDERSTAND THIS- if Blair were to order all muslim men, women and children to be rounded up tomorrow, British policemen and women would carry out this order without a moments thought!

In any society, police are either of the people, or of the state. What matters is NOT what any police force does day to day under normal circumstances, but what they are prepared to do, if so ordered by a completely evil scumbag like Blair!

twilight

The Video

21.09.2005 17:33

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4254408.stm

Oi!

What the Fuck is up with you Twilight

21.09.2005 19:53

You sound like a total loony fundamentalist (of what colour I don't know). I'm beginning to believe that you are trying to discredit Indymedia with your constant rants. While some of what you say is based on fact, you always comepletely blow it out of proportions. Do you really beleive that the ENTIRE policeforce would go out tomorrow the day and round up and kill every single muslim? While I agree that the Police probably have more racists in their ranks compared to the population at large, it is a bit far fetched to believe that there will be a Muslim Holocaust tomorrow. You sound like a fucking loony.

Do you get out much?

Calm Down Twilight

who or what

21.09.2005 20:36

...is twilight?
suddenly new names are posting comments on most if not all indymedia news items, and at the same time we have some names who were equally regular commenters before...
realist? magoo? where are you now?
or had your persistent support of the current regime become too obviously paid (or mad) to usefully maintain any longer, and are your instructions now to veer too far in the opposite direction, messing with our heads with a different mix of perceptiveness and extremist analysis?
just...

wondering

Read the Signs

22.09.2005 03:39

Twilight never wrote anything about all Muslims being killed, he said "rounded-up" and that is already happening, so there is nothing far-fetched about his post.

Like Jews in Nazi Germany, Muslims in the UK are subjected to a barrage of negative propaganda, every day in the media. Neighbours and family are compelled, by law to report any suspicious behaviour for which they can be jailed for three months without charge, and we are told, by Jack Straw, that British-born Muslims pose a threat to us all.

Blair said the holocaust began with a stone through a Jewish window... how about a missile through a mosque window? If I was a Muslim, I would be very worried.

Never Again?

CATO

22.09.2005 11:58

Don be so fucking ludicrous ,Muslims might be getting a lot of flak lately but then to extrapolate that they will be Treblinka's and Buchenwald death camps just round the corner is outrageous. What about blair and his dallice with the new blasphemy law or inviting the mcbs to daily trapess in to 10 downing street.

And twilight the new cato,has got be one the most pompous and thick -headed twerps i have every come across.

Mr Lustbather

dusk

24.09.2005 16:32

Having been hounded by the police quite a bit lately, I actually think you're not giving enough credence to what "twilight" has to say. These coppers *do* follow even the most insidious of orders. They have stopped me from protesting, they have illegally detained me, they are arresting people for having picnics in parliament square, they have stopped people from expressing themselves, they have shot an innocent man in the head, in the head, in the head, in the head, in the head, in the head, in the head and in the shoulder.

They are much more obedient than many readers here seem to think.

Since the battle of the beanfield and the miner's striker and then the raves of the 90s, police are becoming much less a part of the community - and the politicians want it that way. By seperating the police force from the community, they have a much greater control over all of us.

It is illegal for a cop to refuse an order, to go on strike, or to try to start a union. A copper union would be a great thing, imho, as it would enable the cops to refuse to do certain tasks.

ian blair - go an arrest those kids having a picnic in parliament square
unionised cop - no way. they're just drinking tea and making banners.

yes, i think obedience is one of the greatest attributes required by someone who wants to join the force. If ordered to round up all muslims tomorrow, would they? I'm not quite sure about that, but there certainly is very little infrastructure in place for cops who would resist these orders. I think only the bravest of cops would have the courage to say "no" to even the most evil of orders.

i would love to hear more opinions on this. i think encouraging cops (and soldiers) to disobey illegal/immoral orders is a key factor in making the world a better, fairer place for all of us.

cheers,

sean

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