«Des leçons seront tirées» après la mort de Sean Rigg, disent que la police

à l'origine par: The Platform
publié: 11 Août 2012

The mealy-mouthed phrase ‘lessons will be learned’ seems to be the last refuge of all senior police officers when caught out with no one else to blame and no other way to explain away a public scandal.

We heard it again on Newsnight (BBC2) sur 1 August as Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne, the second most senior officer at Scotland Yard, squirmed in his seat and comprehensively failed to convince anyone that his force had behaved ethically or honourably in relation to the squalid and eminently preventable death of Sean Rigg at Brixton Police Station in August 2008.

At the inquest into Sean’s death earlier this month, damning evidence of police disregard for their own procedures and downright incompetence was presented to the court and, significantly, not challenged by those representing the Metropolitan Police.

What was shown beyond doubt was that Sean was a very sick young man. Clinically diagnosed with psychosis, he had been failing to take his medication while living in a hostel and had suffered a classic relapse which manifested itself in bizarre and irrational behaviour.

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Posté par Zinzi Eka-Nephtali le 17/08/2012. Classé dans La santé mentale & D'autres,Brutalité Policière & Meurtres. Vous pouvez suivre les réponses à cette entrée à travers le RSS 2.0. Vous pouvez laisser une réponse ou un trackback à cet article