The Police Dogs

In a recent heat wave two police dogs were left in a police car and sadly died. A Chief Superintendent said that everyone in the force was "devastated" by the incident. "We will certainly take any lessons we can get from this process and make sure we put them in place so this sort of thing never happens again. It has caused immense sadness and immense shock." The police reported themselves to the IPCC and have launched their own investigation. Why they did not take similar action when police malpractice resulted in the death of two people at the recent G20 protests seems to be for them a less pressing question. They also seem unconcerned with the fact that they have been proven to have lied about crucial details surrounding the circumstances of the deaths; claiming that Ian Tomlinson, an innocent bystander, had collapsed when he was in fact pushed to the ground by an officer, as shown by video footage of the event. They lied, denied, delayed and obfuscated, in a similar way to their claim that innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes had jumped a barrier, when they had in fact shot him without warning. They seem to take the deaths of dogs more seriously than that of people. It smacks to me of a smokescreen, distracting the public from their clandestine cover ups with apparent self flagellation over a matter of no real threat to any of them. I no longer trust the police. Their tactics, their attitude, and their outrageous use of ‘kettling’, their illegal removing of their identity numbers, shows to me that they are underhand, overly suspicious, unnecessarily pre-emptive to the point of being oppressive, and they treat protestors, the upholders of democracy, as criminals and terrorists. It is wrong, and it has got to stop.