G20 Protesters kill their own indirectly at Bank of England

BeerWolf · 02-04-2009 08:47AM #1

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Cruel irony.

MagicMarker · 02-04-2009 08:49AM

Bunch of fúcking retards tbh.

Tech3 · 02-04-2009 08:52AM

According to one protester at the scene the man was in his 30s and died of natural causes

He wasnt high on drugs then

T-K-O · 02-04-2009 08:59AM

cause a little mayhem pick up the dole or head back to college - ****tards :rolleyes:

Yo Mamma · 02-04-2009 09:02AM

The Ironing is Delicious !!

WindSock · 02-04-2009 09:02AM

G20 ARE P EABRAIN s (pic 7)

Good on them for protesting, at least they aren't sitting on their fat holes bitching and whinging on the internet. The only problem is is that there are too many causes they are shouting for. They should band together collectivley, one cause at a time.

Photi · 02-04-2009 09:02AM

BeerWolf wrote: »

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Cruel irony.

What's ironic about it?

Biggins · 02-04-2009 09:05AM

Did they actually KILL him or where they partly responsible for causing his NATURAL death?
The fact that he was in a crowd of possibly crushing people was not adventagous to his health but to say the protesters actually killed him - in the face of the already available medical evidence - might be a complete jump too early.
To be honest I'd wait for any toxicology, cardiac or other fuller medical reports before I'd feel assured that the other protesters actually directly KILLED him.
I suspect they might have been condusive to his death but take into account that the media also likes to hype things!
Wouldn't be the first time!

Mr.Lizard · 02-04-2009 09:06AM

Oh dear. One less unemployed college graduate.

BeerWolf · 02-04-2009 09:08AM

Photi wrote: »

What's ironic about it?

Biggins wrote: »

Did they actually KILL him or where they partly responsible for causing his NATURAL death?
The fact that he was in a crowd of possibly crushing people was not adventagous to his health but to say the protesters actually killed him - in the face of the already available medical evidence - might be a complete jump too early.

That the protestors were hurling 'missles' at those trying to help him, and the ambulance, preventing him at getting to the hospital sooner - thus indirectly killing him?

CiaranC · 02-04-2009 09:09AM

I have to laugh. The crony capitalists rob you all blind and AH spews its bile at a few crusties who stand up to them.

As Jim Morrison said 'Youre all a bunch of ****ing slaves'

Biggins · 02-04-2009 09:12AM

I noted that Russle Brand was there yesterday. Some might have hoped it was him.
Sadly, they will be disappointed.

Never mind, there is still two more days to go?

T-K-O · 02-04-2009 09:13AM

CiaranC wrote: »

I have to laugh. The crony capitalists rob you all blind and AH spews its bile at a few crusties who stand up to them.

As Jim Morrison said 'Youre all a bunch of ****ing slaves'

:rolleyes:

WindSock · 02-04-2009 09:14AM

Biggins wrote: »

I suspect they might have been condusive to his death but take into account that the media also likes to hype things!
Wouldn't be the first time!

Exactly.

Now look what they've done, Protesters are the Devil. Lets all just vent our frustrations at football matches instead.

Biggins · 02-04-2009 09:21AM

BeerWolf wrote: »

That the protesters were hurling 'missles' at those trying to help him, and the ambulance, preventing him at getting to the hospital sooner - thus indirectly killing him?

While they definitely didn't help by their actions, prior to that happening there was obviously a medical problem with the poor man.
The surrounding stone throwing protesters exacerbated his health medical problem by causing a possible delay in treatment but the initial root cause of the health concern was there first to begin with.

Definitely, the other protesters didn't do the poor man any favors by their follow-up actions.

biko · 02-04-2009 09:24AM

Meh, I'll reserve judgement until the doctors report is out.

Biggins · 07-04-2009 11:03PM

UPDATE: Footage has emerged of a man apparently being pushed to the ground by a police officer shortly before he collapsed and died from a heart attack.

So at its turning out - he wasn't killed by the actual protesters!

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Senna · 07-04-2009 11:30PM

CiaranC wrote: »

I have to laugh. The crony capitalists rob you all blind and AH spews its bile at a few crusties who stand up to them.

As Jim Morrison said 'Youre all a bunch of ****ing slaves'

G20 protesters are mostly despised as rent-a-mob, here-for-the-beer and an un-organised waste. G20 protest is not protesting in general.

dsmythy · 07-04-2009 11:55PM

Biggins wrote: »

UPDATE: Footage has emerged of a man apparently being pushed to the ground by a police officer shortly before he collapsed and died from a heart attack.

So at its turning out - he wasn't killed by the actual protesters!

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Unfortunately what that video doesn't show is when he collapsed after he had a heart attack. What happened then?

PrivateEye · 07-04-2009 11:59PM

G20 protesters are mostly despised as rent-a-mob, here-for-the-beer and an un-organised waste

I thought 200,000 people on the streets of Genoa at the G8 was actually not so much 'rent-a-mob' as a strong coalition of grassroots organisations, trade unions and ordinary working people.The same to the G8 and G20 demos in Paris, Japan, Canada and elsewhere.

The G8/G20 protests are not hippy 'reclaim the streets' hangabouts. They tend to be the only protests (along with IMF/WTO demos) where huge critical masses of people take to the streets in such fashion.

London was 20 journos to every activist with one broken window being hailed as some kind of 'victory'- thats their problem. They lacked the widespread support of similar demos in Genoa, Athens, Paris etc. in recent times. Thats a cultural thing. Was it a hang around and get drunk party? Not in the slightest.

rent-a-mob, here-for-the-beer and an un-organised waste

That actually sounds more like Geldofs 'lets have a sing song in a field and get drunk for Africa' MakePovertyHistory Piss Up in Edinburgh during the Gleneagles Summit. I think a few thousand people were at the Gleneagles gates protesting at the same time, and making the international media pay attention too.

Biggins · 08-04-2009 12:24AM

dsmythy wrote: »

Unfortunately what that video doesn't show is when he collapsed after he had a heart attack. What happened then?

Certain details are being help back by guess who ...the police!
Usual reasons given! Might effect any outcomes of any possible investigations, bla, bla...

BBC news link: here

Apparently on the video footage, the cop that shoved him walked away leaving him on the ground.
He was then left to bystanders to care for him and get help.

Sharpshooter · 08-04-2009 12:31AM

The guy had his hands in his pockets and was walking past the police when one of them took him down with his stick.
Looked like he hit him on the back of the legs.
Certainly did not look like there was any provocation at all.

seanybiker · 08-04-2009 12:31AM

meh one whinger outta the way. Few more to collapse and ill bust meself laughing.

hopalong85 · 08-04-2009 12:37AM

seanybiker wrote: »

meh one whinger outta the way. Few more to collapse and ill bust meself laughing.

pretty tasteless. have to say, i have a lot more respect for so called whingers who actually get up off their ass and protest in the real world than people who cry and moan on internet forums. a lot of the people who moan and b1tch about fianna fail/bankers etc. on boards, are the exact same people who'll sign into boards and bash the 'crusty dirty unemployed bum' protestors. go figure.

irishgrover · 08-04-2009 12:38AM

seanybiker wrote: »

meh one whinger outta the way. Few more to collapse and ill bust meself laughing.

he wasn't a protester. CCTV footage has shown he as walking home from work, and was directed into an area by a police cordon where he was then assulted by the cops, was picked up by others, walked around the corner and then died....
by hey, why let the truth get in your way of cheap laughs at dead people....

seanybiker · 08-04-2009 12:42AM

irishgrover wrote: »

he wasn't a protester. CCTV footage has shown he as walking home from work, and was directed into an area by a police cordon where he was then assulted by the cops, was picked up by others, walked around the corner and then died....
by hey, why let the truth get in your way of cheap laughs at dead people....

Ah well thats totally different then. Didnt look at cctv cos im using me phone to browse.

skyhighflyer · 08-04-2009 12:52AM

Yeah, it's far too easy to whinge on the internet than it to actually get off your arse and take to the streets.

People in general are far too ambivalent about the sham of a government we have, and that's why we'll keep getting screwed over. I'm far from an anarchist but maybe it's time to make a bit more noise. Those smug TDs would move their fat arses a lot quicker if there were a bloodthirsty, molotov-cocktail wielding mob outside Leinster House baying for blood and planning on a Caeucescu-style ending for those who sold our state and everyone in it to property developers.

/rant, it's been a trying day

Calibos · 08-04-2009 12:55AM

seanybiker wrote: »

meh one whinger outta the way. Few more to collapse and ill bust meself laughing.

Did you even read the last few posts mate??

Put it this way, I was chearing on Robocop from the Irish reclaim the streets protests when I saw the footage. Reveling in each swing of the baton. Thats what you get when you wreck shopfronts, throw bottles and spit in the faces of the Gardai.

This however was pure unprovoked unadulteraded police brutality. Did the copper think he was going to cause the guy a heart attack? No. The copper shouldn't have pushed a guy with his hands in his pockets because he should have thought he'd crack his skull open on the ground and kill or paralyse him. Its actually amazing that the fall didn't kill him but a heart attack later.

No protester deserves to die no matter how much I detest their ilk. A few whacks in the back with a baton YES, death NO. This guy wasn't even a protester.

I should also clarify that I have no problem with peacefull 'issues' protesters at all, but Generally the G** and reclaim the streets protesters are just a bunch of anarchists out for a bit of mayhem and agro with the police and I don't shed a tear when they succeed in getting agro from the police.

Seifer · 08-04-2009 01:05AM

According to sky news he was not a protester, he was on his way home from work.

Allah Hu Akbar · 08-04-2009 01:11AM

Why do so many people have a problem with people protesting against capitilsm?

Sharpshooter · 08-04-2009 01:11AM

Seifer wrote: »

According to sky news he was not a protester, he was on his way home from work.

He was, and they have the CCTV footage to prove it.
It was definitely an unprovoked attack by the police officer.
An American over there on business recorded it and it is there for all to see.
I can't see them talking their way out of it.

G20 Protesters kill their own indirectly at Bank of England

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