Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Compare and contrast.

Interesting that the CPS have decided to charge a policeman over an incident at the G20 summit where he appears to have hit a woman protester on the legs with his baton, and yet no action has as yet been taken over the newsvendor who was pushed to the ground and later died. I would have thought the second incident far more serious than the first, not simply because of the tragic consequences, but because the newsvendor appeared to be minding his own business, whereas the woman quite clearly was intent on confronting the police and doubtless hoped to elicit some sort of reaction. It seems to me that it could be said that she got what she asked for, whereas the newvendor got pushed to the ground for no apparent reason other than that perhaps he was seen as in the way.

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