The Law's Delay

The Crown Prosecution Service's delay in finding someone to acquit of either the fatal assault on Ian Tomlinson or the disinformation campaign that followed has been criticised by various persons who have failed to empathise with the business of doing a wonderful job under difficult circumstances. A minute's silence was observed by Tomlinson's widow and son and a crowd of about fifty; police closed the road but did not use the kettling tactics which did such a wonderful job of preventing trouble during the G20 protests last year. Perhaps because some of the women in the crowd were more than half the size of the officers on duty, nobody was smacked in the face or hit with a baton, either.