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The policing expert in the Times Colonist article is
this guy. He gets paid to testify in court. He says this in the article:
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Lyman was also concerned about the way one of the officers repeatedly struck what appeared to be a baton on the floor near the prostrate Dziekanski.
"Whether it hit him, I don't know. But I am concerned that he may have been struck with no justification."
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That's a neat bit of doublespeak to smear the cops. It doesn't take an expert to know how collapsible batons work. The cop in the video slamming his baton on the floor is closing it. That's the only way to close one and anyone who's held one should know that.
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the times communist is such a hippie newspaper. if they weren't protesting about this it would be about something else.