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Alfie Meadows - Unanimous Not-guilty Verdict !!

Ian Tomlinson | 08.03.2013 18:07 | Repression

A young student who the Metropolitan Police beat nearly to death at a university fees demonstration has been cleared of violent disorder. After the police nearly killed him, the cops then accused Alfie Meadows of having committed serious criminal offences during the 9 Dec 2010 demo in London, which took place to protest against plans to treble tuition fees, but a jury took less than five hours to return a unanimous not-guilty verdict at Woolwich Crown Court today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/08/student-tuition-fees-cleared-disorder

Ian Tomlinson

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Inspector Gadget

08.03.2013 18:23

Inspector Gadget and all the Met Police Geheime Staatspolizei who lied to the press about Ian Tomlinson and claimed Meadows was attacked by protestors will be spitting their dummies out all over Twatter and the web

Congraulations, Lestrade - you trusted the government and in exchange for your loyal violence Boris Johnson broke explicit promises about police numbers and the government slashed police wages and pensions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5212106/G20-police-officer-said-he-wanted-to-beat-up-hippies-on-Facebook.html

Chris

Congratulations Alfie

08.03.2013 20:14

Absolutely disgusting but typical behaviour by the police to bring these charges and put Alfie through the stress of the court case, as if the physical injuries he suffered at their hands was not enough.
But then it was clearly done to delay any investigation by IPCC or claim by Alfie. The Police will do anything to protect themselves: no morality,nor humanity so they should be treated with the disgust and contempt they show for us.
Anybody who joins the police force does so willingly and in full knowledge of their ethos of the police and is as guilty as any of them and equally deserving of our contempt.

qed: ACAB

Just an ordinary person

Media blackout

08.03.2013 21:52

I am certainly no fan of the Guardian, but at least they reported this story. All other major news agencies seem to have decided to censor this. Yet another example of the cop-loving media making sure we only get to hear what suits them.

Media watcher

@Media Blackout

10.03.2013 12:08

Media publications write stuff that they know their readers will want to read about.

Eg.
A tractor magazine write abouts tractors
A chicken feed magazine writes about chicken feed
Socialist Worker will write about Alfie
The Guardian will write about Alfie
New Statemen will write about Alfie
Everyone else doesn't because their readers are not interested. They 'could' write about it, but it would be a waste of paper as no one would bother reading the story.

The "Media Blackout" as you call it is not for the reasons you believe (censorship)
It is about writing stuff for the publication that the editors know is going to be of interest to the readership

Therefore -> blame the readers rather than the media if you don't like it.
You might as well have a go at everyone for not looking at it on Google News, as it is freely available to read. The reason is......... not everyone is interested

reality

@reality

10.03.2013 14:43

That is odd. When Alfie and other protesters were arrested and put on trial there was a media frenzy. The same goes for when Charlie Gilmour pleaded guilty. Alfie and Zak are found not guily - media silence. @reality, people eat what they are fed. Stop pretending that the mass media is simply there for the people and has no agenda of its own.

Media watcher

This guy is a hero

10.03.2013 23:39

Let's make no bones about it, this guy is a hero - not because he happened to be on the receiving end of a police truncheon, but because, like tens of thousands of other heros (male and female) he bothered to stand up against the grand theft of public resources which ordinary people have been paying-in to build-up over generations.

His acquittal has been widely reported, but it's not been considered an important story - the general public are slipping into a state of denial as buying-in to the spectacle of acquiescence and mass-consumption is alot easier than facing-up to the decisions they'd have to take responsibility for if they participated in genuinely radical politics

William Cobbett

UK Indymedia