Video shows London police assaulting man just before his death at G20 protest
Source: Raw Story
A new video shot during last week’s G20 protests in London shows a man being attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a police officer in riot gear – all just moments before he would suffer a heart attack and die.
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The video was shot by a New Yorker in London on business who decided to attend the April 1st protest “out of curiosity,” according to the UK newspaper The Guardian, to which the American gave his footage.
“The primary reason for me coming forward is that it was clear the [Tomlinson] family were not getting any answers,” the New Yorker is quoted by newspaper as saying.
The Guardian will soon hand over the footage along with a collection of testimonies from witnesses at the scene of Tomlinson’s death to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), England’s police watchdog.
One witness named Anna Branthwaite said she saw police assault Tomlinson, a newspaper seller who was on his way home from work.
