[kirklancaster]

This decision is scandalous.

The police WERE used by the Government as a Private Para-Military Army.

The police - especially The Metropolitan Police - DID initiate much of the violence.

Many - not all - of the police acted as yobbos in uniform with almost Tribal displays of confrontational aggression and threatening behaviour.

These included violently bashing their riot sticks against their perspex riot shields in UNISON so that the SIGHT of long lines of police standing with shield and riot stick, AND the sound - like 'a train thundering nearer on the rail tracks' - STRONGLY RESEMBLED, and was INTENDED to resemble, the scene from the Michael Caine/Stanley Baker classic film 'Zulu', where thousands of Zulu warriors intimidated Bromhead and Chard's tiny besieged force of British soldiers at Rorke's Drift.

To deny the VALIDITY of a LONG OVERDUE inquiry based upon the grounds given, is pure unacceptable whitewashing of a dark incident in their history which the Government and Police Authorities want to obliterate.