Baton Victim: G20 Police Were Looking for Trouble
A woman filmed being assaulted by a G20 police officer claims the police "were there for a fight".
Nicola Fisher, an animal rights supporter from Brighton, told Sky News that the Metropolitan Police officer, a sergeant from the Belgravia station, had pushed her so she instinctively pushed him back.
She asked the officer "what do you think you're doing, hitting a fucking woman?" before he assaulted her.
Video footage clearly shows that the sergeant hit Miss Fisher's face with the back of his hand before striking out at her legs with his baton.
Miss Fisher had been attending a vigil for newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who died in the protests after being assaulted by another Met police officer.
She described her injuries to Sky News: "Almost straight away there was a big welt there and they lasted for over a week. The one at the top of my left leg was seven inches across and three inches down and the circumference of my leg at that place is 18 inches so it was nearly half my leg.
"It obviously was a case of assault and battery and if it hadn't been a police officer then the person probably would be looking at possibly a jail sentence.
"I thought they were there to protect us and from my experience of that day they were there for a fight."
The Evening Standard very helpfully provided a second photograph of the sergeant involved, which clearly shows his collar number as AB42.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating this incident as well as the Tomlinson case.
Nicola Fisher, an animal rights supporter from Brighton, told Sky News that the Metropolitan Police officer, a sergeant from the Belgravia station, had pushed her so she instinctively pushed him back.
She asked the officer "what do you think you're doing, hitting a fucking woman?" before he assaulted her.
Video footage clearly shows that the sergeant hit Miss Fisher's face with the back of his hand before striking out at her legs with his baton.
Miss Fisher had been attending a vigil for newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who died in the protests after being assaulted by another Met police officer.
She described her injuries to Sky News: "Almost straight away there was a big welt there and they lasted for over a week. The one at the top of my left leg was seven inches across and three inches down and the circumference of my leg at that place is 18 inches so it was nearly half my leg.
"It obviously was a case of assault and battery and if it hadn't been a police officer then the person probably would be looking at possibly a jail sentence.
"I thought they were there to protect us and from my experience of that day they were there for a fight."
The Evening Standard very helpfully provided a second photograph of the sergeant involved, which clearly shows his collar number as AB42.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating this incident as well as the Tomlinson case.
1 comments:
"Its despicable, the police hiding there identities like that".
Said the anarchist from behind is balaclava...
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