Monday, December 3, 2001

Swedish police reportedly doctor video evidence, admit it This is in agreement with what I have read in Swedish media. What is missing here is that the prosecutor's office has repeatedly tried to obtain raw film footage from TV stations, presumably to compare with the police videos, but they refused and the Supreme Court agreed with the media. Out of context, it sounds pretty nasty that a teenager was shot by police, but it is apparently proven that he was hurling 4x4x4 inch solid cubic pavement stones at an officer who was already badly wounded from previous stones, bleeding and semiconscious. The police, relatively inexperienced with riots, were armed with nightsticks and pistols only, nothing "in between" such as water cannons, teargas/pepper spray or rubber bullets. [Ulf Lindqvist via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 81] 0:00 # G!