As expected the police story does not appear to match up with what happened that day, namely it now looks that the police shot four times at a man with mental health problems, then gratuitously tazered him and kicked him while he lay on the floor bleeding to death. Amazingly he lived, and is recovering in a mental health institute. This from the Daily Mail, but better to read it here first http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/...olice.html ...includes Daily Mail link.


The catalogue of police racism over recent years is huge - deaths in custody - people 'falling from balconys' and 'stabbing themselves' - just look at the front page of yesterdays Guardian for the ongoing crisis - and if its not sorted out there will be more riots, just as there were in the 80s, just as there were in LA over Rodney King, and just as there were last summer. Im sick of it. If this same incident happened in a leafy village and George was white it would not have resulted in what has happened.