Whoa, whoa - I actually agree with stuff you say, but you do yourself serious discredit by saying Ian Tomlinson was 'beaten to death by riot police' as if he was a protester somehow set upon by multiple officers with truncheons until he passed away. The guy was a drunken bystander, not a protester, and was hit on the knee (by an arsehole, yes, though one that had been on duty since 5am in a 14 hour shift) before being pushed out of the way and falling to the ground. Swearing, he got back up, walked off for 60m and collapsed of internal bleeding from where his elbow (which he fell on) had bumped his cirrhotic liver! His death has more to do with biological misfortune (not all of it cosmic, since the liver cirrhosis came from his serious alcoholism) than the sort of brutality associated with 'beatings to death' - to my mind, at least.