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29 words posted by Simon on 21 October 2005

From today’s Indy:

In the past 12 years no police officer has been successfully prosecuted for any of the 30 fatalities caused by police marksmen.

There’s something to ponder.

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Comment from Engelbert Goldenberg


    22.19, 21/10/2005

As the Crown Prosecution Service would say, it is not in the public interest to prosecute policemen.




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