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That's the thing though.
It's not just a case of hauling someone up, it's a wholesale change in the attitude of the police which needs to change. The guy that beat and threw Ian Tomlinson is one of hundreds and hundreds of officers who all acted in the same way that day. Due to the fact that the event was hyped from well beforehand by their bosses as the beginning of the "summer of rage" and bound to be violent.
Just because Tomlinson died, doesn't mean that the officer who beat him was any more aggressive than the ones who beat hundreds of other people. He just had bad luck.
even the chairman of the Met says
"Sometimes it isn't clear, as a police officer, who is a protester and who is not.
I know it's a generalisation but anybody in that part of the town at that time, the assumption would be that they are part of the protest."
basically saying, that in his mind it's ok to beat peaceful protesters, alas they just got the wrong man this time.