No CCTV cameras captured the police assault on Ian Tomlinson?
According to Nick Hardwick, chairman of the IPCC (in a video interview with Channel 4), none of the CCTV cameras were working:
"We don't have CCTV footage of the incident... there is no CCTV footage, there were no cameras in the location where he was assaulted."
Speaking to More 4 News, the IPCC confirmed Hardwick's comment, saying that the CCTV cameras overlooking the incident were not working.
So manc_ill_kid went out on the streets to take a closer look...
Amazing that they were *all* out of order, isn't it?Especially as the Guardian had been given quite a different idea by Commander Simon O'Brien, of the Met:"There were small groups charging forwards and backwards into police lines. It did seem to us, from CCTV and police on the scene, that they tried to find a way to ramp up the protest and hijack it into violence." O'Brien said police had collected footage from helitelly, the force's nickname for CCTV from powerful helicopter cameras, adding that those identified should expect a "knock on the door".
As Matt Wardman concludes: "Tale your pick: cock-up, incompetence, or conspiracy."
