I'm sure that there was more than a superficial difference between these two crimes.

TheBigotBasher

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Mon Jul-26-10 06:30 PM
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I'm sure that there was more than a superficial difference between these two crimes.

The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, today supported the Crown Prosecution Service's decision against charging the police officer caught on video during last year's G20 protests striking Ian Tomlinson, who later died.

Grieve also rejected suggestions that the death of a police officer by a member of the public in similar circumstances would have been treated differently.

Really?

Two teenage members of a "happy slapping" gang who fatally beat a retired care worker in front of his young granddaughter in south London have been detained.

Ekram Haque, 67, was attacked in August 2009 in Tooting as he left a mosque. He died from his injuries a week later.

Leon Elcock, 16, and Hamza Lyzai, 15, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in June at the Old Bailey.

Elcock was detained for four-and-a half years and Lyzai for three-and-a-half.

Mr Haque hit his head after being struck to the ground, suffering irreparable brain damage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10737347

If two kids can be quite rightly imprisoned for causing death by happy slapping then so should a policeman. I see little difference between these two crimes, except for the very obvious and that makes me sick.

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Nihil

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Tue Jul-27-10 05:13 AM
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1. Those two aren't getting much in the way of punishment either.

> Both killers could be released on licence after serving half their sentences,
> minus nearly a year they have already been in custody, while the 15-year-old
> has effectively completed his sentence already.

Yeah, that's really showing them the penalty for pointlessly killing a 67 year old
innocent guy in front of his granddaughter - especially as one of the bastards
did it while out on bail for punching & stamping on two old folks in their 70s.

:mad:

Don't go trying to make out that they are martyrs simply because the
police/judiciary are corrupt with regards to the police murderer.

They are *all* - Elcock, Lyzai, the unnamed 15-year-old, the copper who
killed Tomlinson - every last one of them are murderous scum who should
be put away for life.

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TheBigotBasher

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Tue Jul-27-10 04:37 PM
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2. I never suggested the other two are martyrs

they deserve a long time in prison and so do the police who in the case of Tomlinson acted no differently.

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