{"id":3011,"date":"2010-03-30T00:28:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2010-03-30T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:36:07","slug":"its-a-dogs-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"It’s a dogs breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are two contrasting situations I’ve spent some time mulling over…<\/em><\/p>\n

1. On Thursday this week<\/strong>, one year will have passed since Ian Tomlinson died after a police assault at the G20 protests in London.<\/p>\n

No charges have been brought against the police; no one has been punished.<\/p>\n

Despite 300 official complaints about the policing of the protests, and plenty of video and photographic evidence to back up the complaints, no officer has faced serious disciplinary proceedings.<\/p>\n

Those police officers who removed their identification numbers, beat up peaceful protesters and bystanders and then repeatedly lied about what had happened remain untroubled, either by the law, their consciences or their superior officers.<\/p>\n

There has been no apology to Ian Tomlinson’s family.<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>. In June last year<\/strong> a Nottinghamshire police officer directly caused two deaths. As soon as it happened, the police reported themselves to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and launched their own investigation.<\/p>\n

A chief superintendent told the press: “We will certainly take any lessons we can get from this process and make sure we put them in place so this sort of thing never happens again. It has caused immense sadness and immense shock.”<\/p>\n

The papers carried pictures of officers paying tribute to the deceased, saluting the flowers left outside police headquarters.<\/p>\n

There was no cover-up, no botched post-mortem, no lies about the victims or their families.<\/p>\n

The officer responsible was quickly charged and, though his victims had died as a result of his neglect not an assault, last month he was convicted over the deaths.<\/p>\n

There’s a significant difference between the two cases.<\/p>\n

The two deceased Nottinghamshire victims were dogs.<\/p>\n

The officer had locked the two police dogs in his car in +30c heat, and forgot about them while he completed some paperwork.<\/p>\n

Judging by their response to these two tragedies, both police and prosecutors appear to care more about dogs than human beings.<\/p>\n

Or, to look at it the difference between these two unfortunate events another way, the police and prosecutors care more about police dogs<\/em> than civilian human beings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Original reportage provided by George Monbiot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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