Police video evidence missing. Long-serving ex-Metropolitan Police officers presented as “independent” experts. Coroner’s contentious directions to inquest jury. The troubling case of Rashan Charles.
Witness 1 continues to restrain Rashan as he lies face down, limp, unresponsive, still handcuffed.
In the early hours of Saturday 22 July last year, a police officer pursued a young man into a Hackney convenience store, grabbed him from behind, threw him to the floor, landing heavily on top of him, and then subjected him to prolonged restraint.
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