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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18900484

http://m.youtube.com/?reload=3&rdm=m74hr96kq#/watch?v=Frbc7aJsdms

Nice video anyway....

I'm surprised the jury never had access to his previous, I'm sure they take people's history into consideration in most other cases ?

If he hadn't been a copper he'd have gone down every time . . . .

Previous  convictions are normally withheld until a guilty verdict UNLESS there is a similarity to the offence.

In this case it would  be a  bit like you or I going to court for speeding and then finding your employment disciplinary record being presented as evidence for something completely different.

It's an interesting one - it's seems the but for the  complete ineptitude of the Met and Sussex Polive this man shouldn't have been wearing a uniform in the first place - can see some serious compensation being paid out to the family and a protracted employment tribunal when they try to sack him

Keep reading comments to this effect.

He was found not guilty by a jury, not by another bunch of coppers.

I'm not against the verdict as like you say the Jury made the decision. It's easy for people to say the Policeman should of done this or that differently but they didn't spend hours being battered with iron bars and bricks. Coppers take a lot of shit in situations like these and any human would be a bit jumpy so mistakes will be made.

Beating someone to death.

An honest mistake.

I'll accept that in situations like this policemen/women shouldn't be judged on the same standards as ordinary civilians. But the fact this bloke has got off free is laughable. Considering his history, he shouldn't even have been there in the first place. Sounds like a thug in a uniform.

He didn't beat him to death though Dave, I thought it looked heavy handed especially as the bloke had his hands in his pockets but think in general compared to other countries our police are soft in riot situations.

It always annoys me the way the protesters are quick to come forward to demand justice by having the Police and their officers held to account for anything they do wrong. Yet the protesters are more than happy to commit offences and get away with it, why they don't they come forward and confess if they're that worried about justice?

I'm not a big fan of the Police, but they really do get totally shafted when it comes to mass demonstrations. They can't win.

Don't give a damn about how we compare to other countries. I've not experienced riot police in other countries, it's not excuse for the way they behave in here.

Brief encounters I've had with them, they seem liked control hungry knobheads, waiting and hoping for something to go off. I realise that they have to treat everyone with suspicion, there's rarely common sense used. They rarely seem any better than those they're trying to halt, they're just wearing different clothes

Based almost entirely on what I've seen on TV

Wouldnt happen if we had Robocop

Moron

Only until some mad professor puts a devil micro chip in them to take over the world like in all the films.

In the jury and the coppers defence, there wasn't any evidence to show he had done it except for the video of him doing it.

It would be ok though as someone would come back from the future to destroy the chip.

There have been 1,500 deaths in police custody in the uk.

Number of police convicted of murder or manslaughter:  0.

Nothing to see here. Move on.

It's the old bad apple cliché.

Only, when it's a copper, they are defended.

How many times are you herded together because 'it's a few who spoil it for the majority'?

The title of the thread says it all.

His Mrs was all beaming smiles walking out of court.....I hope the family get some justice.

police killed liddle towersssssssssss

Are you pissed up by any chance Marvin :pint:

no, just listening to the angelic upstarts before my next poker tournament starts ,