Blog: Russell Myrie
It's looking increasingly likely that the fallout from the G20 protests will have the same far reaching consequences for policing seen after the Brixton riots, Hillsborough, and the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
The footage of a young woman being hit on the legs by a police officer roughly twice her size is probably even more shocking than the footage which shows Ian Tomlinson being knocked to the ground. In a perfect world the gender of the person would make no difference. But in the real world the fact that it's a woman will probably cause a more sympathetic response. Hitting a woman is the worst thing a man can do and when that man is a police officer the offence becomes even more worse. Of course anyone getting their legs taken away by a police officer who is supposed to be maintaining peace should expect a certain amount of sympathy. The chance to properly complain and see something done about it would be nice too.
What is especially worrying is the fact the sergeant in question is another police officer who deliberately obscured his badge number. Does this mean the attacks on the public were pre-meditated? I wonder how many officers that day decided to take similar action. Anyone who has read the autobiographies of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (and there must be a few of you out there) will know this was a tactic used by police when they attacked The Black Panthers back in the day. It's more than a little shocking to see the technqiue used in (supposedly) civilised, modern Britain around three decades after The Panthers heyday. Thankfully, they can't obscure their faces.

Yes, the woman was swearing at police. But they are trained, or at least they should be, to deal with such things. At no point does the lady in question do anything which would justify a large, hench looking policeman hitting her on the legs and knocking her to the ground.
There must be hours and hours of more footage to come through. Anyone who felt a little nervous about coming forward previously will now hopefully be encouraged. There may well be footage of the same incident to emerge. Videos shot by the public have become increasingly important as it becomes more and more obvious that the IPCC should have the 'I' removed from their moniker: Late last week, they reckoned there was no police footage of any police brutality. After they were proved wrong by pictures clearly showing a plethora of cameras in the area where the protest took place they now reckon they were simply mistaken. They will only admit what they have to.
There have been predictable rumblings that protestors and those on their side are happy that all this stuff is happening. To hear some people tell it, the protestors enjoy being able to feel like victims. That is as crazy as it is insulting. If there is any happiness to be derived from all this, and you have to find a silver lining with many things in life, then it's in being proved right after being outraged at what took place in a country that supposedly protects democratic rights.


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