From Belfast to Baltimore Bad Police Tactics Spread. So can Justice.
By Laura Flanders
Source: GRITtv
May 22, 2015
Its an old adage but its true, especially when it comes to policing: an injury to one really is an injury to all. Thats because like a bad movie, bad police tactics spread the globe. Accountability can go global too, but as in a recent case out of Ireland, justice moves more slowly.
Shortly after the death of Baltimores Freddie Gray, a leaked police document claimed that a prisoner transported with Gray heard him
banging against the walls of the vehicle as if he was intentionally trying to injure himself.
That prisoner
quickly refuted the story, but not before it brought to my mind very similar claims from police in Northern Ireland.
Throwing oneself down stairs
punching own face and poking own eyes
injury to the neck by attempted self-strangulation.
Thats how investigators explained injuries sustained in police custody in Ireland according to documents recently dug up by human rights investigators. Theyve spent years getting beneath the spin, and now we know that while they fed the public guff about self inflicted harm,
internally British ministers sanctioned torture .
Full article:
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-belfast-to-baltimore-bad-police-tactics-spread-so-can-justice/