Tomlinson verdict...........not guilty

Thank God for a bit of common sense for a change
Should never have gone to trial

 

Not for manslaughter, but the officer involved was clearly guilty of being a bully and using excessive force.

 

He should certainly lose his job

 

Agreed.

 

Agreed, footage shows a guy calmly walking and he gets attacked by the police officer - unbelievable that he got off.

Did he have John Terry's lawyer?

 

Turns out he has a violent history as a police office. Asked for a transfer to avoid proceedings following a fellow officer reporting him for violence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/19/simon-harwood-disciplinary-proceedings

He's a little bully, no more no less.

 

The guy was clearly trying to take the p.iss out of the police by wandering up and down infront of the police line
The police were under extreme pressure that day - he only got pushed over by the police officer to get him out of the way. Its not as though the police gave him some welly
Are we to get into a situation that when perople are rioting the police have to start wondering whether they can use effective frorce - after all the police are acting on our behalf
If the police officer was found guilty then it would have been Political Correctness gone mad

 

Go read some facts about what happened rather than blabbing a load of innacurate nonsense you heard down the pub.

 

If you've seen the footage and you think that's what happened then I'm shocked. The 'officer' was clearly 'up for it' saw a bloke who he could take some of aggression out of without any come back and slammed into him from his blind side like a coward. That's not acceptable in my opinion. To link that with the man's subsequent death, might be stretching things, but to suggest the officer was justified in his actions is just plain wrong.

 

If I were on the jury I wouldn't have been able to find him guilty of manslaughter. He was guilty of a lot of things, bad policing for a start, not protecting the public, actually going out of his way to hurt the public, but not killing a man. It's just so unusual for a push to result in a death.

I wish he'd been charged with something else. I don't know the legal system well enough to know what else he could have been charged with, but manslaughter just seemed too severe.

I certainly don't think he should continue to be a police officer after the way he acted that day.

 

Should have got life, too many coppers overuse their batons, football police are worse culprits!

 

Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of another human being without intent. The absence of the intent element is the essential difference between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Also in most states, involuntary manslaughter does not result from a heat of passion but from an improper use of reasonable care or skill while in the commission of a lawful act or while in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony.

copy and pasted, not my view

 

Think the Coroners verdict was unlawful killing, given the Officer was the one that pushed him his actions were deemed unlawful by the Coroner .

 

Police are public servants. They are paid to protect people not baton them and violently push them to the ground for no reason.

Manslaughter is entirely reasonable.

 

Given the number of innocent people actually shot and killed by the Met down the years without anyone ever being charged, it would certainly have been amazing if manslaughter charges had stuck.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

I hope the ******* of a bully copper looses his job and gets some boot too, if boot would've been on other foot then someone would've got a 6 month stretch. Joke, why he had to push him to the floor so hard is behond me

 

It probably shouldn't have gone to trial, certainly not for manslaughter. If only there was a charge for being a lovely person in a uniform.

 

I think he's been "retired" - kept his gold plated police pension of course.