In a totally outrageous decision, a Metropolitan Police investigation supervised by the IPCC has concluded that police officers were “justified” in pulling Jody McIntyre from his wheelchair and hitting him with a baton at the student fees demonstrations.
A statement from the force said: “The investigation, supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), did not find evidence to substantiate any of the complaints made by Jody McIntyre regarding two separate incidents at the demonstrations.”
Defend the Right to Protest will be campaigning vigorously to publicise and overturn this wholly unacceptable decision which is a clear and cynical attack on our right to protest. More to follow.
Jody McIntyres response in The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-wheelchair-attack-on-jody-mcintyre-lawful-2290000.html
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Video of police dragging Jody from his wheelchair:
The BBC interview Jody after the incident:
Police wheelchair attack ‘lawful’ The Independent
jody, it is duc.
if they hit you with a baton they should be suspended, jody.
if they are not we can conlcude they were foollowing orders.
jody, don t forget you are a victim here if you were forgetting your being a victim, then you would forget to protect your right and duties to considerate the consequence of your being an activist, and a possible threat to the public security too. you have to keep in mind that in wheel chair or not they had to take into account the fact that you could have charged them.