The police officer caught on video striking newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during last year's G20 protests in London faces disciplinary proceeding, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, told MPs today.Tomlinson later died. The announcement comes less than a week after the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not press charges against PC Simon Harwood, a member of Scotland Yard's territorial support group, a decision that sparked anger from Tomlinson's family and supporters.Stephenson said the officer has been told he will face a disciplinary hearing for gross misconduct after the force received an independent report into the incident. He told a meeting of the Commons home affairs committee that he was "disturbed" by the footage of Mr Tomlinson being hit with a baton and pushed to the ground
The police officer caught on video striking newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during last year's G20 protests in London faces disciplinary proceeding, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, told MPs today.
Tomlinson later died. The announcement comes less than a week after the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not press charges against PC Simon Harwood, a member of Scotland Yard's territorial support group, a decision that sparked anger from Tomlinson's family and supporters.
Stephenson said the officer has been told he will face a disciplinary hearing for gross misconduct after the force received an independent report into the incident. He told a meeting of the Commons home affairs committee that he was "disturbed" by the footage of Mr Tomlinson being hit with a baton and pushed to the ground
