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Re:China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protest... by chvid on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:27PM (#20319311)
The issue was not the internal communication within the police. For that there was a complete paper trail. But the top police officers got their instructions from somewhere; probably high ranking civil servants, spin doctors or maybe even politicians in the then government. Those communications were gone.
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Re:China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protest... by pjc50 on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:28AM (#20323461)
Really for cases like this the only way through is the Nuremberg one: "only following orders" is not a defence, especially if you can't or won't say who gave the order.
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Re:China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protest... by drtillberg on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:35PM (#20320672)
> “no officer had a case to answer for misconduct or gross misconduct.”

Pretty suggestive that in this case, the police were able to demonstrate a binding order from someone who was not an 'officer'.

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