Armed standoff between Nigerian police & NSCDC officers caught on tape

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4087006764651641737" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;">                        <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-J6KNLpS9QlyDXPlXpmqmxcKQ0lb4ERTfS5SpauU_KKgWpSkA2qrCLvZiyk6AHbr-Sqd_D6IX71cEnCRbgP9irQthOG2VEoAO7HUKhAkShe9A5gsScJ4FKshlF4rr_68A38EAy-TNs5Q/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-J6KNLpS9QlyDXPlXpmqmxcKQ0lb4ERTfS5SpauU_KKgWpSkA2qrCLvZiyk6AHbr-Sqd_D6IX71cEnCRbgP9irQthOG2VEoAO7HUKhAkShe9A5gsScJ4FKshlF4rr_68A38EAy-TNs5Q/s1600/images.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Civil Defense and Police force members engaged in a power struggle, one which escalates as members of both sides draw guns. Occurring in full view of a people, the fight threatens to take a deadly detour at many points.<br /></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The release of the video is the next installment in the brewing conflict between the Civil Defense and the police, after the Civil Defense had accused a member of the police force of threatening to shoot Commandant-General Abe Abolurin during an anti-vandalism inspection in Lagos on Friday. Both the police and the Civil Defense officials tussled for control of the site, as can be seen, with an officer intent on barring access of Civil Defense agents to the area.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Watch video below<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IiYOp4EotcI" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Source: Sahara Reporters</span></div> </div>

Armed standoff between Nigerian police & NSCDC officers caught on tape

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Boko Haram: 27 police officers still missing in Gwoza — DCP Ojukwu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title posttitle" itemprop="name headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2049px;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">P</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">olice</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">authorities, yesterday, disclosed that 27 police officers are still missing, almost one week after Boko Haram insurgents attacked Police Academy in Gwoza, abducting 35 of them.</span></h1> <div id="entryContainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="entry entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_122952" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 430px;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/police0.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Nigerian Police" class=" wp-image-122952" height="230" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/police0-300x202.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="420" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Police</span></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a statement by the Force Public Relations officer, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Police Command confirmed that eight of the officers have so far been rescued and returned to safe Police locations.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ojukwu noted that “27 are still missing. We are looking forward to more returning in the next few days. Search and rescue efforts are continuing. Police will reclaim her facilities.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will be recalled that the Defence Headquarters had earlier declared that military operations to secure Gwoza town seized by the insurgents earlier this month were on-going.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This came as Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau proclaimed Islamic caliphate in the town, which he said, was now firmly in the grip of the sect.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Responding to the claim by the sect leader that Gwoza town seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under an Islamic caliphate, the military authorities said, “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nigerian state is still intact.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Boko Haram leader had in a new video claimed that he has created an Islamic caliphate in Gwoza.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as an unprecedented national embarrassment the increasing seizure of Nigerian towns by the terrorist group, Boko Haram and the reported fleeing of 480 Nigerian soldiers to Cameroon during an attack on a military base in Gamboru-Ngala on Monday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a statement issued in Lagos, Tuesday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently address Nigerians on the worsening security situation in the northern part of the country that has allowed Boko Haram to proclaim its rule over a part of the nation’s territory.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said in the face of the biggest threat to Nigeria’s unity and territorial integrity since the country’s civil war, President Jonathan must also put partisanship aside and rally the nation against Boko Haram, which by all indications seems to be getting bolder and stronger, to such an extent that the group is now hoisting its flag over parts of the nation’s territory.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">APC also restated its call for an urgent national stakeholders’ conference on security that will cut across party lines to help fashion a solution to what has now become a clear and present danger to the survival of Nigeria, while pledging its unalloyed support for any sincere effort by the Federal Government to end the insurgency as quickly as possible.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As an immediate first step, the party calls on President Jonathan to immediately halt the illegal electioneering campaign by his Ministers, other appointees and supporters, saying Nigeria must survive as a nation before any party or individual can rule over it.</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/boko-haram-27-police-officers-still-missing-gwoza-dcp-ojukwu/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 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Boko Haram: 27 police officers still missing in Gwoza — DCP Ojukwu

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The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="wide-photo-box" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; float: none; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 638px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Police advance through smoke Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. " src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson3-638x427.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 638px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police advance through smoke Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.</span></div> <div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative !important; right: 0em !important; text-align: left; text-shadow: none !important; top: 0em !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As protests continued over the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at police hands Wednesday night, officials in Ferguson have not even released the name of the officer who fired the fatal shots. Police have insisted they are committed to self-improvement and racial justice, as residents testify at local fora that they are exhausted and fed up by the harassment and racial profiling that plagues the majority-black town with a majority-white police force. Police shouted over the megaphone, “Your right to demonstrate is not being obstructed,” according to <a href="https://twitter.com/al3x/status/499749201090072578" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">some accounts</a>. But overnight Wednesday, a stark picture emerged of residents chanting and screaming (some bottles were reportedly thrown but did not hit officers), as cops treat them as if they were at war. The violence culminated with an <a href="https://twitter.com/dwallbank" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">announcement Thursday morning</a> that Gov. Jay Nixon (D) will likely be relieving the St. Louis County police of their duties. Here’s how police have been conducting themselves:</span></div> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rampant deployment of rubber bullets, tear gas and smoke bombs, including on private homes</span></h4> <div class="wide-photo-box" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; float: none; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 638px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="A protester kicks a smoke grenade deployed by police." src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FergusonSmokeBombs-638x418.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 638px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A protester kicks a smoke grenade deployed by police.</span></div> <div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative !important; right: 0em !important; text-align: left; text-shadow: none !important; top: 0em !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To look at images of Ferguson Wednesday night is to look at a fogged-over landscape reminiscent of a war zone. Tear gas was so ubiquitous that reporters said they could not go from the police station on one side of the town to their cars on the other because of tear gas en route. Officers reportedly marched down streets ordering protesters to leave as they fired tear gas. As they did this, they <a href="http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/police_in_ferguson_fire_tear_gas_on_protesters_with_hands_up_in_their_own_backyard.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fired tear gas</a> into the backyards and homes of individuals who stood on their own property with their hands up, according to the Riverfront Times. Other videos <a href="http://digg.com/video/footage-from-ferguson-shows-police-fire-smoke-bombs-rubber-bullets-on-peaceful-protest" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">depict police dispersing crowds</a> with round after round of tear gas and smoke bombs at protesters singing and chanting, without regard for private property. The Guardian reports that officers continued to deploy tear gas late Wednesday night even as crowds ran away and exhibited no visible aggression, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hitting vehicles</a> as the people inside tried to escape.</span></div> <div id="aol-mobile-ad" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="tp-advertisement" id="div-gpt-ad-1406054322033-0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div id="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe frameborder="0" height="1" id="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100% !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1"></iframe></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among the other tactics officers repeatedly used were rubber bullets and a high-pitched siren to drive away protesters. The guardian observed one individual with the “hands up, don’t shoot” refrain that has come to define the protesters shot several times with rubber bullets by officers before he fell to the ground. When he did, several <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">officers pounced on him</a>, according to the Guardian.</span></div> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pointing rifles directly at crowds from on high</span></h4> <div class="photo-box aligncenter" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: none; margin: 0.5em auto; max-width: none !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 512px;"> <img alt="A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13." src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FergusonGunsPointed.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13.</span></div> <div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Town protests errupted over one police officer’s deadly use of a gun. But that hasn’t stopped police dressed in riot gear and riding around town in tanks from pointing their guns — <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/08/police_in_ferguson_military_weapons_threaten_protesters.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols</a> — directly at crowds of protesters on high, dressed in helmets and military garb. May of these officers stood in lines across facing protesters, even in broad daylight, and even as the media recorded.</span></div> <span id="trigger-slidedown" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" frameborder="0" height="526" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(238, 238, 238) rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(187, 187, 187); border-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100% !important; min-width: 220px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Embedded Tweet"></iframe><br /> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forceful suppression of the media</span></h4> <div class="wide-photo-box" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; float: none; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 638px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Police attempt to secure a street after a clash with protesters Wednesday." src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PoliceSecureStreet-638x415.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 638px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police attempt to secure a street after a clash with protesters Wednesday.</span></div> <div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative !important; right: 0em !important; text-align: left; text-shadow: none !important; top: 0em !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attempts to quiet the media hit their pique Monday night, when officers <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/reporters-arrested-ferguson-ryan-reilly-wesley-lowery_n_5676841.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arrested two reporters</a> who were sitting in a McDonalds. According to accounts from the reporters — Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowry of the Washington Post — the two were in the McDonalds charging their electronic equipment when police came and said they were shutting down the McDonalds. The reporters began to pack up their stuff, but before they could do so, they were handcuffed and hauled into a police car. Reilly said the officer rammed his head against a glass door before sarcastically apologizing. Lowry said he was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">accused of resisting arrest</a> even after he dropped his things, voluntarily put his hands behind his back, and affirmatively told the officers he was not resisting. After his body was rammed into a vending machine, Lowry said he told the officers in the car this would appear on the front page of the Washington Post, to which an officer responded that he would be in a jail cell. The two were held for about 15 minutes in a holding cell before the chief called for their release.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This incident came after days of reports of media suppression. Many have reported that police <a href="http://digg.com/video/footage-from-ferguson-shows-police-fire-smoke-bombs-rubber-bullets-on-peaceful-protest" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">repeatedly told them</a> to turn off their cameras or blocked reporters from taking their camera positions.</span></div> <iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" frameborder="0" height="211" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(238, 238, 238) rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(187, 187, 187); border-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100% !important; min-width: 220px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Embedded Tweet"></iframe><br /> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reporters from Al Jazeera that the Guardian described as “highly visible” were attempting to record a segment when a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gas cannister was thrown directly at them</a>, prompting them to flee. According to photos disseminated on Twitter, officers <a href="https://twitter.com/CassFM/status/499800133174063104/photo/1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disassembled their abandoned video equipment</a> after the reporters fled. Others say they were turned away from even entering Ferguson. And St. Louis Dispatch photographer David Carson said he was <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/262553/no-media-allowed-in-ferguson-mo/#.U-pzPhRM2e0.twitter" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ordered to leave the scene</a> and threatened with arrest.</span></div> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arrests And Escalation Of Force</span></h4> <div class="wide-photo-box" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; float: none; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 638px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="A community activist tries to persuade a group of protesters to move back as police in riot gear watch protesters." src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson2-638x430.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 638px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A community activist tries to persuade a group of protesters to move back as police in riot gear watch protesters.</span></div> <div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative !important; right: 0em !important; text-align: left; text-shadow: none !important; top: 0em !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Including the two reporters, at least ten people were arrested, police told the Guardian. Among them was Antonio French, a St. Louis Alderman who has been disseminating around-the-clock <a href="https://twitter.com/AntonioFrench" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter updates</a> that provided among the most detailed and invaluable information from Ferguson. French told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch police dragged him from his car Wednesday night but “gave him no documentation that says why he was arrested.” “Inside that jail is nothing but peacekeepers,” French <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/another-night-of-unrest-in-ferguson-officials-ask-for-patience/article_0806541b-ed48-5d06-9267-323531ad6cf1.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">told the Post-Dispatc</a>h. “They rounded up the wrong people … reverends, young people organizing the peace effort.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lowry <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html?hpid=z1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> that while he was in the police van, another man was held who screamed, “I can’t breathe! Call a paramedic!” for at least 15 minutes. Lowry said he asked if the police were going to help him and officers insisted he was fine. And in the police car that transferred him to jail was a woman wearing a collar that identified her as a member of the clergy who sang hymns on the ride to the police station.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Wednesday, police <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/13/ferguson_protest_curfew_police_ask_residents_not_to_gather_after_dark.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">issued a memo</a> asking residents to protest and assemble only during the daylight hours. During a tense press conference with Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson Wednesday afternoon, Jackson insisted the memo was merely a request, that there was no curfew and protesters were free to peacably assemble as they wished.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who has been an active participant in the protests, asked Jackson for assurances that she would not be gassed anymore. “I hope not,” Jackson replied repeatedly, acknowledging that Chappelle-Nadal had said nothing wrong. Jackson later said he would likely ratchet back the use of force in the coming night. But it was hours later that police tactics escalated. Later that night, St. Louis County police chief Brian Schellman <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">told the Guardian</a> that he didn’t know whether gassing would be necessary again Thursday night. “Our commanders are definitely going to review and see if we can do something better,” he said, but added that the officers “acted with great restraint.” That particular department will likely not be gassing Thursday night after all, as reports suggest it will be relieved of its duties.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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Ferguson Police Killing: Bloggers Speak Out

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="subscribe-header" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 600px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: right;"></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; width: 600px;"><tbody> <tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 560px;"><tbody> <tr><td class="the-post" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 560px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 60px !important;"><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/author/benhuberman/" style="display: block; margin-right: 10px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="" border="0" class="avatar avatar-50" height="50" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/663dcd498e8c5f255bfb230a7ba07678?s=50&d=retro" width="50" /></span></span></a></td><td><h2 class="post-title" style="margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/ferguson-bloggers-roundup/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;">Ferguson: Ten Bloggers Speak Out</span></a></h2> <span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/author/benhuberman/">Ben Huberman</a></span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="post-content" style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many details about the violent death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, remain unclear. What is beyond doubt is the intensity of reactions to this story -- in the media and in neighborhoods all over the US (and beyond). Here are ten personal perspectives on this event and its aftermath, from writers representing a diverse cross-section of the<a href="http://wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link">WordPress.com</a> community.</span></span></div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14938226361/">Image</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;">by</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/">Shawn Semmler</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;">(</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;">0)</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="post-content" style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://gukira.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gukira</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writer and scholar <a href="http://gukira.wordpress.com/about/">Keguro Macharia</a> reacts with his usual incisiveness to one of the signature chants of post-Ferguson protests :</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-style: italic; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em; padding-left: 1em;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” is an expression of “humanity,” as one tweet has it, we must ask for whom that humanity is available. In fact, the insistent repetition of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” by black bodies across the U.S. might offer a less promising narrative: it might suggest the banality with which black life forms can never gain access to the vernaculars of the human.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<a href="http://gukira.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/hands-up-dont-shoot/">hands up, don't shoot</a>"</span></div> </blockquote> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://myrivercityblues.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">myrivercityblues</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://time.com/3111474/rand-paul-ferguson-police/">Many commentators</a> on the violence in Ferguson have focused on the dangers of using a militarized police force to contain civilian protests. But how militarized <em>is</em> law enforcement in Ferguson? In a <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/181315/catalog-ferguson-police-weaponry#">comprehensive, illustrated piece</a> in <em>The Nation</em>, <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/rivercityblues">Lyle Jeremy Rubin</a>, a political<a href="http://myrivercityblues.com/">blogger</a> and former Marine, guides the uninitiated through what he calls "the arsenal of racial oppression."</span></span></div> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://afroculinaria.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Afroculinaria</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://afroculinaria.com/contact-me/">Michael W. Twitty</a> usually blogs about food cultures -- especially those of African American communities. The events in Ferguson have prompted him to write a moving personal piece, "<a href="http://afroculinaria.com/2014/08/18/ferguson-my-thoughts-on-an-american-flashpoint/">#Ferguson: My Thoughts on an American Flashpoint</a>," where he recounts his own experiences of discrimination and racial profiling.</span></span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> </div> <div class="" id="attachment_28352" style="clear: both; direction: ltr; margin: 0px auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14918432146/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="14918432146_c930e8b196_o" border="0" class="wp-image-28352 size-large" src="https://en-blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/14918432146_c930e8b196_o.jpg?w=560" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14918432146/">Image</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/">Shawn Semmler</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>)</span></span></div> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="https://dissonantwinstonsmith.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dissonant Winston Smith</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A blog by an <a href="https://dissonantwinstonsmith.wordpress.com/about/">anonymous police officer</a> currently on duty in Ferguson, <em><a href="https://dissonantwinstonsmith.wordpress.com/">Dissonant Winston Smith</a></em> reports on the challenges of wearing the very uniform that has come to represent violence and discrimination to many in that community. He writes, for example, on being the object of media scrutiny:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-style: italic; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em; padding-left: 1em;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If police try to clear the media out before using gas they’re accused of trying to suppress the media’s freedom of the press. If police let them stay, they’re gassing the media which is apparently also evidence of media suppression.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<a href="https://dissonantwinstonsmith.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/in-reference-to-media-suppression/">In reference to media suppression</a>"</span></div> </blockquote> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://dangillmor.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dan Gillmor</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writing from the other side of the police/press divide is journalist and media expert <a href="http://dangillmor.com/about/">Dan Gillmor</a>. He has recently published <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/16/fergusons-citizen-journalists-video">a piece in <em>The Guardian</em></a> about the power of citizen-journalists, in Ferguson and beyond, to expose inaccuracies (and, at times, outright lies) in official narratives by law enforcement agencies.</span></div> <h3 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://twopointommen.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Two Point Ommen</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the biggest stories coming out of Missouri is the central role of social media -- especially Twitter -- in keeping the world informed of the violent clashes between protesters and police. In "<a href="http://twopointommen.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/the-digital-mosaic-public-twitter-and-ferguson/">The Digital Mosaic Public: Twitter and Ferguson</a>," blogger <a href="http://twopointommen.wordpress.com/about/">Brett Ommen</a> takes a more skeptical position, pointing to the limitations of social media in bringing about change on the ground.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> </div> <div class="" id="attachment_28354" style="clear: both; direction: ltr; margin: 0px auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14754634510/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" class="wp-image-28354 size-large" src="https://en-blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/14754634510_cd208e5f09_o.jpg?w=560" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14754634510/">Image</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/">Shawn Semmler</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>)</span></span></div> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <br /></div> <h3 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://tressiemc.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">tressiemc</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Atlanta-based sociologist <a href="http://tressiemc.com/about/">Tressie McMillan Cottom</a> offers a more affirmative angle on grassroots media and their potential to empower members of marginalized communities:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-style: italic; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em; padding-left: 1em;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Digital media appealed to blackfolks for the same reasons that any innovation appeals to us. It is a chance to up-end legacy structures and institutions that have shut us out.  We are early adopters not to be cool but to survive.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <a href="http://tressiemc.com/2014/08/20/what-is-left-to-say/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black;">"What Is Left to Say?"</span></a></div> </blockquote> <h3 id="site-title" style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://beccyjoy.wordpress.com/" rel="home" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" title="beccyjoy"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">beccyjoy</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Language and the way it can camouflage bigotry -- both conscious and not -- is a topic that blogger <a href="http://beccyjoy.wordpress.com/about/"><em>beccyjoy</em></a> addresses head on:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-style: italic; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em; padding-left: 1em;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By saying, “you do not have all of the facts” we are essentially saying “I don’t believe that you are smart enough to know what is happening right in front of your face.”</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By saying, “this isn’t a race issue” we are saying “I know more than black people about what it feels like to be black.”</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<a href="http://beccyjoy.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/you-might-want-to-rethink-that-comment-you-are-about-to-post-about-ferguson-mo/">You might want to rethink that comment you are about to post about Ferguson, MO</a>"</span></div> </blockquote> <h3 style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.3em;"> <a href="http://beingshadoan.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Being Shadoan</span></a></h3> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do notions of complicity and privilege play into tragedies like the one unfolding in Ferguson? In her provocatively-titled post, "<a href="http://beingshadoan.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/i-am-racist-and-so-are-you/">I am racist, and so are you</a>," writer <a href="http://beingshadoan.wordpress.com/about-this-blog/">Rachel Shadoan</a> offers a panoramic view of the history of institutional racism in the US, and tries to find ways for individuals to help dismantle its heritage.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> </div> <div class="" id="attachment_28350" style="clear: both; direction: ltr; margin: 0px auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14938333031/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="14938333031_849e3a1664_o" border="0" class="wp-image-28350 size-large" src="https://en-blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/14938333031_849e3a1664_o.jpg?w=560" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/14938333031/">Image</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/104257326@N05/">Shawn Semmler</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>)</span></span></div> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://thinkbannedthoughts.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">ThinkBannedThoughts</span></a></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The violence in Missouri caps a summer full of bad news, from the Middle East to Ukraine and beyond. Feeling deflated and powerless, <a href="http://thinkbannedthoughts.com/editor/">writer Bree Ervin</a> has consciously decided to disconnect from events over which she has little influence.</span></div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a thoughtful piece, "<a href="http://thinkbannedthoughts.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/retreating-toward-happiness/">Retreating toward Happiness</a>," Bree explains that her decision doesn't mean she no longer cares, but rather that her energy is better spent within her local sphere:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-style: italic; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em; padding-left: 1em;"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I know it seems like the world is burning, and some of us are in places where we can help put those fires out, but for the rest of us, maybe the best thing we can do is stop adding fuel to the fires, maybe the best thing we can do is practice peace.</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We wish you all a safe, sane weekend -- and if you have another story related to Ferguson you'd like to share, please feel free to leave a comment.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </div> </div> </div>

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ACP Frank Mba bows out as Police Public Relations Officer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9113051595979183286" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;">         <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZKsauH7Y9DS8AdDgY44WIl6fC5wzk5RhgCdaf0ixOnKPCMgAytgli9ksuS_LXV2VlafGokyh1BpTWOnTqa90ku59RMssg1kt_8AAlguxtjt4C_shsdLPxIt_ot53to5hPp4uxT9-P0M/s1600/unnamed0+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZKsauH7Y9DS8AdDgY44WIl6fC5wzk5RhgCdaf0ixOnKPCMgAytgli9ksuS_LXV2VlafGokyh1BpTWOnTqa90ku59RMssg1kt_8AAlguxtjt4C_shsdLPxIt_ot53to5hPp4uxT9-P0M/s1600/unnamed0+(2).jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ACP Frank Mba has bowed out as the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Police Force. In a letter of appreciation he sent out this morning, Mr  Mba expressed his gratitude to the media and the Nigerian people for contributing to his successful tenure.<br /><br />Mba, who was promoted to the rank of Assistant Police Commissioner in June, has been redeployed to Lagos State Command as an Area Commander, Area J. He is expected to hand over to the new Public Relations officer, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu later today.</span></div> </div> </div>

ACP Frank Mba bows out as Police Public Relations Officer

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FCT Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, Umaru Manko and 17 other Commissioners of Police become AIGs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5057298721092332347" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">                        </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NMofcdBeeU7JN12c1y4B5f6Y5cpAATtfau2_0cezV4oWc222VfN8apBNPdWyjgcvFYv4I1-iQ2KFXONqORE7mAx27Lj9_Akze2Y_r6A6xXmOajBr5At6awyWIMWGKFWmzIInZFav1hU/s1600/joseph_mbu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NMofcdBeeU7JN12c1y4B5f6Y5cpAATtfau2_0cezV4oWc222VfN8apBNPdWyjgcvFYv4I1-iQ2KFXONqORE7mAx27Lj9_Akze2Y_r6A6xXmOajBr5At6awyWIMWGKFWmzIInZFav1hU/s1600/joseph_mbu.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5057298721092332347" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> The Police Service Commission has promoted the FCT Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, his Lagos counterpart, Umaru Manko and 17 other Commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General ofPolice.<br /><br />Other promoted officers include Ambrose Aisibor, Adebayo Ajileye, Joel Theophilus, Wilfred Obute,A. Abakasanga, Jubril Adeniji, Ibrahim Maishanu, Godfrey Okeke, and Chintua Amajor-Onu.<br /><br />Also promoted are Felix Uyanna, Lawal Tanko, Usman Gwarry, Kalafite Adeyemi, Yahaya Ardo, Irimiya Yerima, Olufemi Adenaike and Patrick Dokumor.<br /><br />All the appointments are with effect from August 20, 2014.<br />A statement from the Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations, PSC, Ferdinand Ekpe, in Abuja on Wednesday, said the promotions were necessary to fill the vacancies created by recent retirements and promotions in the Force and to re-invigorate and reposition of Zonal and other Commands headed by AIGS, to help tackle the country’s current security challenges.<br /><br />The Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Mike Okiro who congratulated the officers, urged them to brace up to the responsibilities of their new office, noting that the Commission is working assiduously towards formulating and implementing policies aimed at enhancing discipline and productivity in the Nigeria Police Force.<br /><br />Source: Punch</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

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Top Cadre Promotion in Nigeria Police Force

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nigeria-police-logo.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mass promotion in police"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Nigeria-police-logo" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nigeria-police-logo-700x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mass promotion in police" width="700" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Promotion in Nigeria Police</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=77832#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> </span></span></a></header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">•New DIGs, AIGs emerge</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced the promotion of six Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs) to the rank of Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs).The PSC also announced the promotion of two Commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police (DIG). The newly promoted DIGs are Dan’Azumi Doma, Mamman Tsafe, David Omojola, Solomon Arase, Christopher Katso and Salihu Hashidu.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those promoted to AIG, include, Hilary Opara and Sotonye Wakama.<br />According to a statement by the Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations of the commission, Ferdinand Ekpe, all the promotions were with effect from August 19.<br />Ekpe re-affirmed the commission’s earlier decision that promotions from the ranks of ACPs to AIGs would only be done after its interviews with the affected officers, saying the commission had at its 6th plenary on August 12, reviewed the time limit within which aggrieved police officers could lodge complaints against punishment meted to them to 30 days from the receipt of the decisions.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “It has also availed aggrieved officers the opportunity to appeal directly to the commission where an action on its decision is not implemented by the police authorities as directed by it.<br />While congratulating the newly promoted officers, the Chairman of the PSC, Mike Okiro, a former Inspector General of Police, charged them to see their elevation as opportunity to serve and use their wealth of experience in uplifting the Nigeria Police.”</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The first night back was terrifying but we can't sell up - that would be giving in': Professor says he won't move out as police release picture of man wanted over beating</span></span></h1> <ul class="mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Kohler, 55, was attacked at his home in Wimbledon on Monday night</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was almost blinded in horrific attack which has left him needing surgery</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said moving from beloved home would be 'giving in' to thugs</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Polish men have appeared in court and were remanded in custody </strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detectives today released CCTV mugshot of suspect Oskar Pawlowichz, 29</strong></li> </ul> <div class="author-section" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The father-of-four who was savagely beaten in a terrifying home invasion robbery says his family won't be scared out of their home by the thugs who attacked him.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Academic Paul Kohler was left with a face covered with livid bruises and fears over his eyesight after the vicious attack he endured at the hands of four masked raiders at his £2million, three-storey Edwardian property in Wimbledon, South-West London.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Defiant, he and his wife Samantha MacArthur - who was threatened with violence by the intruders in last Monday's attack - have spoken of their fears after returning to the family home.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Bloody, but unbowed: Paul Kohler and his wife Samantha have spoken about returning to their house after the savage home invasion attack that left left him fearing for his life" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="407" id="i-9ca1f0edf810fcad" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209CBD7F00000578-463_634x407.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bloody, but unbowed: Paul Kohler and his wife Samantha have spoken about returning to their house after the savage home invasion attack that left left him fearing for his life</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="splitLeft" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mr Kohler, a father-of-four, only left hospital on Saturday night. There were fears he would lose the use of one eye" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="423" id="i-ec7d3f8ee84b4891" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209CBE5300000578-815_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="splitRight" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Oskar Pawlowichz, 29, is wanted in connection with the attack and is described as 6ft tall and of a stocky build" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="2" height="423" id="i-e6dde49efe4f6262" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209D235900000578-745_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler (left), a father-of-four, only left hospital on Saturday night. There were fears he would lose the use of one eye. Oskar Pawlowichz (right), 29, is wanted in connection with the attack </span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to <a href="http://www.itv.com/thismorning/hot-topics/attacked-in-my-own-home" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ITV's This Morning</a> earlier, he was asked whether he would consider selling the home in the aftermath of the attack.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Absolutely not,' he said. 'That would be giving in.'</span></div> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727854/The-night-terrifying-sell-giving-Professor-says-wont-police-release-picture-man-wanted-beating.html#ixzz3AnCBHA2L" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727854/The-night-terrifying-sell-giving-Professor-says-wont-police-release-picture-man-wanted-beating.html#ixzz3AnCBHA2L</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span><br /> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, who only left hospital on Saturday night, added: 'There's also a cathartic element of going back to reclaim our territory.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mrs MacArthur also spoke of her emotional return to the family home. She said: 'The first night back was terrifying.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mrs MacArthur spoke of her emotional return to the family home following the attack" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="3" height="423" id="i-e7cd848ee90e4527" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209CBE5800000578-614_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mrs MacArthur spoke of her emotional return to the family home following the attack</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We're finding it difficult to sleep and at every noise you jump up because you think it might be something. It makes you scared in your own house.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their comments came as police today released an image of a man they want to question in relation to the violent aggravated burglary.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oskar Pawlowichz, 29, is wanted in connection with the attack and is described as 6ft tall and of a stocky build. He is bow-legged and walks with a limp.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pawlowichz was born in Tarnow, Southern Poland, and has links to numerous areas in south London.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers believe that Pawlowichz is the same man who appeared in previously issued CCTV footage.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detective Inspector Dan O'Sullivan, of Merton Burglary Squad, said: 'We are calling for members of the public, in particular the Polish community, to assist us in tracing Pawlowichz's whereabouts.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We believe that he may make an attempt to flee from the UK to Poland, and at present we are in direct liaison with the Polish authorities, UK Borders Agency and Interpol and a co-ordinated effort to detain Pawlowichz is underway.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers have also made a third arrest in connection with the enquiry.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A 30-year-old man was arrested early this morning on Garratt Lane in Wandsworth on suspicion of Aggravated Burglary. He is currently in custody at a South London police station pending further investigation.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="splitLeft" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Paul Kohler, who only came out of hospital on Saturday, with his daughters Tamara (left) and Saskia" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="4" height="423" id="i-eb09721b2c2e16d4" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209DD81400000578-998_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="splitRight" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mr Kohler with his wife Samantha" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="5" height="423" id="i-e7c8ae0a26086776" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/article-2727854-209DD80800000578-340_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Kohler, who only came out of hospital on Saturday, with his daughters Tamara (left) and Saskia (right). Right, with his wife Samantha</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, a Cambridge-educated law lecturer, previously spoke in graphic detail about the brutal attack that shocked the country.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When he opened the door of his six-bedroom house on Monday night, he had been enjoying a tranquil evening playing board games with his wife.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last thing he expected was that within moments he would be battling for everything he most loved.</span></div> <div class="moduleFull" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /> <div class="item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3736032129001" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="videoplayer-large" style="height: 358px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 636px;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></a><br /> <div class="videoplayer-title-bg" style="box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 3px 5px; height: 26px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 636px;"> </div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="videoplayer-title" style="left: 6px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"> Paul Kohler will not be leaving his house after awful attack</div> <div class="btnBg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 2px 2px 3px; height: 85px; left: 275.5px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 140px; width: 85px;"> </div> <span class="playbtn" style="border-color: transparent transparent transparent rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: dashed dashed dashed solid; border-width: 0.53em 0.53em 0.53em 1em; display: inline-block; height: 0px; left: 289.5px; position: absolute; right: 0.25em; top: 151.5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span><center style="text-align: left;"> <img class="plcHlder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/video-undefined-209DBDEC00000578-457_636x360.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 358px; margin: 0px; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;" /></center> </a></div> <div class="news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wocc videoplayer-keyline" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; height: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, the head of law at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, said he thought only of protecting his family as he fought back furiously against the intruders.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I regard my home as my domain and suddenly these men break through the defences.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Within my domain I had this hostile force and I felt incredibly protective. I had my family there and this whole notion of an Englishman’s home is his castle – that was the feeling. I realised I’d stupidly let into my house someone who was out to create havoc, and there’s a real sense of fear and panic.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But I felt I had to defend my home and my family. I really was fighting for my life.’</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Still smiling: Paul Kohler, who was left battered by his attackers, with daughters Eloise (left) and Bethany (right)" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="6" height="530" id="i-83c9f696a7a800a3" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408218883640_Image_galleryImage__NOT_TO_SYNDICATED_MAIL_O.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still smiling: Paul Kohler, who was left battered by his attackers, with daughters Eloise (left) and Bethany (right)</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="In stitches: Eloise, who was home at the time of the attack, and Paul share a joke while Bethany stays close" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="7" height="523" id="i-78c86f1bd2f120ae" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219367236_Image_galleryImage__NOT_TO_SYNDICATED_MAIL_O.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In stitches: Eloise, who was home at the time of the attack, and Paul share a joke while Bethany stays close</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Proud: Paul clings to two of his four daughters at his hospital bedside while his wife Sam stands by them" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="8" height="544" id="i-75c83f0cccc3643e" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219448971_Image_galleryImage__NOT_TO_SYNDICATED_MAIL_O.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Proud: Paul clings to two of his four daughters at his hospital bedside while his wife Sam stands by them</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler’s ordeal, during which he suffered severe blood loss and injuries that could permanently damage his sight, began at 10pm on Monday when he heard the doorbell ring.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unusually, he said, he had won several rounds of the intellectually challenging game Lost Cities, and his wife Sam had gone upstairs to ‘lick her wounds’.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His daughter Eloise, 24, and her boyfriend Geraint had earlier had supper with the couple but had gone upstairs to watch television in her room, a piece of good fortune that probably saved the family from an even worse fate.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His other three daughters, Saskia, Bethany and Tamara, were not in the house, and Mr Kohler, who was alone downstairs when the doorbell rang, said he assumed it was one of his daughters’ friends.</span></div> <div class="moduleFull" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3731512857001" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="videoplayer-large" style="height: 358px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 636px;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></a><br /> <div class="videoplayer-title-bg" style="box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 3px 5px; height: 26px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 636px;"> </div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="videoplayer-title" style="left: 6px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"> CCTV of the suspect who attacked Paul Kohler in Wimbledon</div> <div class="btnBg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 2px 2px 3px; height: 85px; left: 275.5px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 140px; width: 85px;"> </div> <span class="playbtn" style="border-color: transparent transparent transparent rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: dashed dashed dashed solid; border-width: 0.53em 0.53em 0.53em 1em; display: inline-block; height: 0px; left: 289.5px; position: absolute; right: 0.25em; top: 151.5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span><center style="text-align: left;"> <img class="plcHlder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/15/video-undefined-208BA27E00000578-796_636x358.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 358px; margin: 0px; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;" /></center> </a></div> <div class="news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wocc videoplayer-keyline" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; height: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Close family: Paul pictured centre with his four daughters - from left to right - Eloise, Beth, Tamara and Saskia" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="9" height="475" id="i-b77183d7f5b1e7d1" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219629442_wps_5_Shows_Paul_Kohler_Kohler_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Close family: Paul pictured centre with his four daughters - from left to right - Eloise, Beth, Tamara and Saskia</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mr Kohler runs the Cellar Door bar in Central London with his wife Samantha, centre, and business partner Gordon Anderson. The popular venue is located in a converted underground toilet frequented by Oscar Wilde" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="10" height="421" id="i-fa6897ab177f72b5" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219740654_wps_6_paul_kohler_facebook_2_jp.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler runs the Cellar Door bar in Central London with his wife Samantha, centre, and business partner Gordon Anderson. The popular venue is located in a converted underground toilet frequented by Oscar Wilde</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘I could see a silhouette of someone through the glass – it’s pretty badly lit out in the hall – and it looked just like the height and haircut of one of the girls’ mates. So I opened the door and this guy appeared to fall through the door.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Before I even thought what’s happening I had blows raining down on me. They hit me before they said anything. Then the one at the front started saying, “Where’s the money?” It was a dark hallway, but from what I could see of them they had covered their faces.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Then they pushed me away from the door so I wasn’t making sound out into the street.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bloody and relentless assault continued as the men punched and kicked Mr Kohler almost 20ft along the hallway until he was at the door of his dining room. ‘They were pushing me to the dining room and I was trying to defend the stairs a bit because I knew my family were up there,’ he said.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘I was punching away and thrashing away. I couldn’t punch like them, but I was doing my best and shouting and they were trying to shut me up.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He recalled: ‘I shouted out “Sam, ring the police!” – a move he said he instantly regretted because it alerted the burglars to Sam’s whereabouts. In response, one of the four thugs ran upstairs, forced Sam to lie on the floor and stood over her for the duration of the burglary.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After that Mr Kohler was careful to not reveal that Eloise was in her bedroom at the top of the house.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His quick-thinking daughter, hearing the commotion, was able to lock her bedroom door and call 999. She then turned off the light before crawling under the bed with her boyfriend and speaking to the police in hushed tones.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking for the first time, the Edinburgh University graduate said: ‘I honestly thought my parents had been stabbed. I thought we were going to die.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘That’s all I kept thinking, “We’re going to die.” I was so scared. The policewoman was trying to calm me down, but I was just sobbing.’</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="splitLeft" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Paul Kohler pictured shortly after the attack at his home" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="11" height="567" id="i-61c5739bae55041" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219887091_Image_galleryImage_August_13_2014_Photo_of_a.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="splitRight" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Paul Kohler's home in Wimbledon where the attack happened" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="12" height="567" id="i-ad2903edf3d9b5bb" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219888642_wps_10_No_7_Kings_Road_centre_ho.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul pictured shortly after the attack (left) which happened on Monday night at his home in Wimbledon (right)</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Officers believe the suspect fled from King's Road and through the car park of the New Wimbledon Theatre" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="13" height="510" id="i-30c9bd8fce1ef99f" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219967595_wps_11_paul_kohler_7_kings_road_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers believe the suspect fled from King's Road and through the car park of the New Wimbledon Theatre</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Police investigating the violent burglary want to speak to this man who was seen moments after the attack" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="14" height="464" id="i-70cbff21b8e8aaf6" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408220011661_wps_12_CCTV_of_the_man_been_soug.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police investigating the violent burglary want to speak to this man who was seen moments after the attack</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Mr Kohler had been ‘blinded’ in his left eye by the force of the blows.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the dining room, where he was surrounded by his familiar furniture including a piano and cocktail cabinet, the attack took an even more menacing turn. He said: ‘One of the men pushed me back so I was lying in the doorway of the dining room and jumped on top of me and was just beating me remorselessly with his fists.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Another one was behind me kicking me in the head, and another held my legs down.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘One of the first punches I received in the hallway had caused me to lose all sight in my left eye, so it meant I was blindsided on one side and couldn’t see anything coming.</span></div> <div class="mol-article-quote floatRHS" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/opening_double_quotes.png); background-position: 0px 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; float: right; margin: 16px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; width: 308px;"> <div class="mol-article-quote-wrapper" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/closing_double_quotes.png); background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 10px 23px 6px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A copper flew through the door like the cavalry -</span><br /> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Kohler</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘One of them was kicking me from the side and I couldn’t see them coming. He was just smashing at my face and the power of the blows was just phenomenal.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘The guy who came in first was grabbing at my groin and trying to grab my testicles, but it was impossible in that position while I was kicking.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, the moment that really terrified Mr Kohler was when one of his tormentors pulled out a roll of gaffer tape and attempted to gag him.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘I was biting at it because there’s something about if you’ve lost all your physical freedom and then they try to take your voice as well, which is your only defence mechanism – you panic.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘So I bit at the tape and bit at it every time he tried to put it on and it stuck together. So he gave up doing that.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At this point, Sam tried to escape from the man who was standing over her upstairs, causing two of Mr Kohler’s attackers to run upstairs to his aid.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler’s remaining assailant then attempted to put his hands over the academic’s mouth and nostrils, prompting Mr Kohler to try to break free, but then the two other men came back down.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Then I was facing all three and one of them hit me again on my blind side, so I was down again,’ he said. ‘Then the ringleader picked up the heavy, wooden door of the cocktail cabinet, which is loose and has come off.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'And he knelt above me, holding the door above his head, saying, “Tell me where the money is” – and threatening to bring it down on my head, and I’m bracing myself thinking he’s about to hit me with the door.'</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mr Kohler, left, was at home with his wife Samantha, right, and daughter Eloise, centre at the time of the attack" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="15" height="845" id="i-86a2c89db78933e6" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408220035579_wps_13_paul_kohler_facebook_jpg.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+16</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, left, was at home with his wife Samantha, right, and daughter Eloise, centre at the time of the attack</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added: ‘At that point a copper just flew through the door like the cavalry. He grabbed at the guy who was kneeling on my shoulders and pinned him down.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When his wife and daughter emerged unhurt, he said there were ‘tears of emotion’ but also bewilderment over what had happened.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The devastating assault on Mr Kohler lasted only eight minutes, but it left the house covered in blood and was described by the detective inspector investigating the case as the ‘most brutal’ he has seen in 20 years.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said he was ‘unrecognisable’ with swelling on the side of his head the size of a football, while blood flowed from his mouth and eyes. He was unable to open his eyes for two days.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doctors at the hospital to which he was taken had to carry out an emergency transfusion because he had lost so much blood because of internal bleeding, putting a strain on his heart. He now faces reconstructive surgery on a cracked eye socket that could still could leave permanent damage to his sight.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said they were still bemused about the motive for the attack, especially as little was taken and their house is close to a police station.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘There are only two possibilities. It’s either a mistaken address or someone has made the stupid assumption because we own a small bar in Covent Garden, the Cellar Door, that we have a large amount of money in the house.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But most people buy their drinks with credit cards. We have a few hundred pounds at most that comes into the house and goes straight to the bank.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Polish men have appeared in court and were remanded in custody but police are seeking the other two suspects. Both are believed to be aged between 20 and 30 and from Eastern Europe.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detectives have released CCTV images of one of the suspects running through Wimbledon Theatre car park. He can be seen removing the surgical gloves which he wore during the attack.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727854/The-night-terrifying-sell-giving-Professor-says-wont-police-release-picture-man-wanted-beating.html#ixzz3AnBQ0vbY" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727854/The-night-terrifying-sell-giving-Professor-says-wont-police-release-picture-man-wanted-beating.html#ixzz3AnBQ0vbY</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span></div>

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