April Fool

It now comes all abundantly clear that the incident with Ian Tomlinson was just an April Fool.

When the MetPlod said that they attended a man who had collapsed from natural causes:

that was an April Fool.

When the MetPlod said that they had to move him because people were throwing bottles:

that was an April Fool.

When the MetPlod said that there had been no previous contact with them:

that was an April Fool.

When the MetPlod said that the policing of the demonstrations had been succesful:

that was an April Fool.

In fact the police do love their jokes, and whenever anything bad happens always like to lighten the mood with with a few little jokes. My how we laughed when the MetPlod said that

Charles de Menezes was wearer a bulky puffer jacket to possibly hide a bomb:

they were only joking.

Charles de Menezes jumped the barriers at Stockwell tube station:

they were only joking.

Charles de Menezes ran down the escalators:

they were only joking.

Charles de Menezes resisted them in the underground carriage:

they were only joking.

The MetPlod have always been fond of a joke, how we laughed when they tried to trap Colin Stagg for the Rachel Nickel murder with an office pretending be interested in sado-masochism:

they were only joking.

How about the shooting of Harry Stanley in Hackney as he was carrying a gun:

they were only joking, it was a chairleg.

Or indeed the latest joker, Bob "Not Very" Quick, waving around secret documents around in the street.

What we have here is a plod force which is out of control, unaccountable, deeply racist and largely incompetent, the subject of their joke rape investigations hasn't even been touched.

Also they are starting to make policy themselves, who decided that "kettling" was the thing to do on demonstrations and why? It seems that the police have taken it upon themselves to punish people who go on demonstrations by holding them there for hours. Unaccountable and stupid.