page_title: Death of Ian Tomlinson
section_title: Earlier encounter with police
hierarchical_section_title: Death of Ian Tomlinson / Incident / Earlier encounter with police
caption_attribution_description: English: City of London The numbers mark where Ian Tomlinson was allegedly assaulted on April 1, 2009. The number 1 marks where his journey began; 2 where the alleged assault took place; and 3 where he collapsed and died. Français&#160;: Carte d'une partie de la Cité de Londres. Le numéro 1 (au milieu en bas) indique le début du trajet de Ian Tomlinson le soir du 1er avril 2009, le numéro 2 est l'endroit où il aurait reçu un coup à la jambe et le numéro 3 est l'endroit où il s'est effondré sans se relever.
context_page_description: Ian Tomlinson was a newspaper vendor who collapsed and died in the City of London after being struck by a police officer during the 2009 G-20 summit protests. After an inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing, the officer, Simon Harwood, was prosecuted for manslaughter. He was found not guilty but was dismissed from the police service for gross misconduct. Following civil proceedings, the Metropolitan Police Service paid Tomlinson's family an undisclosed sum and acknowledged that Harwood's actions had caused Tomlinson's death.
  The first post-mortem concluded that Tomlinson had suffered a heart attack, but a week later The Guardian published video of Harwood, a constable with London's Metropolitan Police, striking Tomlinson on the leg with a baton, then pushing him to the ground. Tomlinson was not a protester, and at the time he was struck was trying to make his way home through the police cordons. He walked away after the incident, but collapsed and died minutes later.
context_section_description: Several newspapers published images of Tomlinson's first encounter with police that evening. According to Barry Smith, Tomlinson left the newspaper stand outside Monument Tube Station at around 7 pm. The Daily Mail published an image showing Tomlinson smoking a cigarette in front of a police van. An eyewitness, IT worker Ross Hardy, said Tomlinson was on Lombard Street, drunk and refusing to move; a police van nudged him on the back of the legs, Hardy said, and when that didn't work he was moved by four police officers wearing personal protective equipment. The Daily Mail published a second image of him near the police. On 16 April The Guardian published three images of Tomlinson on Lombard Street.
  Tomlinson stayed on Lombard Street for another half hour, then made his way to King William Street, toward two lines of police cordons, where police had "kettled" thousands of protesters near the Bank of England. At 7:10 pm he doubled back on himself, walking up and down Change Alley where he encountered more cordons. Five minutes later he was on Lombard Street again, crossed it, walked down Birchin Lane, and reached Cornhill at 7:10–7:15 pm.
  A few minutes later he was at the northern end of a pedestrian precinct, Royal Exchange Passage (formally called Royal Exchange Buildings), near the junction with Threadneedle Street, where a further police cordon stopped him from proceeding. He turned to walk south along Royal Exchange Passage instead, where, minutes before he arrived, officers had clashed with up to 25 protesters. Riot police from the Met's TSG, accompanied by City of London police dog handlers, had arrived there from the cordon in Threadneedle Street to help their colleagues.
caption: (1) 19:00: Tomlinson left Bank–Monument station. (2) c. 19:20: He was struck in Royal Exchange Passage. (3) 19:22: He collapsed outside 77 Cornhill.[31]
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