James Martin Charlton

Theatre 🎭 Film 🎬@jmcfireplays; essayist; recovering academic 📚. Author of Fat Souls, Divine Vision. These views and musings I acknowledge mine...

[James Martin Charlton @jmc_fire]

My two most recent play publications - Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham and The Pilgrim's Progress are available from @TSLpub
The Pilgrim's Progress
Step into an unforgettable journey with this epic adaptation of John Bunyan’s timeless allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this dramatization brings to the stage the tale of Christian, who flees the City of Destruction on a perilous quest to reach the Celestial City. Guided by Evangelist, Christian encounters a host of vivid characters—both friends and foes—including the treacherous Mr Worldly Wiseman, the loquacious Talkative, and the fearsome Apollyon. We follow Christian’s trials as he battles through the murky Slough of Despond, faces persecution at the chaotic Vanity Fair, and confronts the enormous Giant Despair in the menacing Doubting Castle. Meanwhile, his family endures their own hardships in his absence, adding a poignant counterpoint to his epic journey.
https://t.co/vhLWiMArH6
Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham
London, 1800. Things aren’t going too well for William Blake. He lacks work, his wife worries over the bills, he’s seeing visions of the Apocalypse, and his planned epic poem on the divine remains unwritten. When Blake gets an offer from famous poet William Hayley to leave London and settle in a cottage at the seaside village of Felpham, he jumps at the chance. In Felpham, things don’t quite work out the way Blake had them planned…
https://t.co/UKpMU6jICD
The cover designs are by brilliant @MiddlesexUni BA Graphic Design graduate Phillip Block.

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Sid James

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Which great actor is missing?

[James Martin Charlton @jmc_fire]

It’s bias, but it’s not unconscious.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Right now the idea of 'unconscious bias' (which is obviously real) is taking a kicking.

But it's evident in the Henry Nowak bodycam: police officers clearly assumed a young white guy, slurring his words, dressed to nines and probably a uni student, must have been drunk.

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Occasional Danny: getting use to just relaxing as I work.

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@dg3design @DAaronovitch So you agree with Kemi Badenoch's interventions?

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Abolish Police Apprenticeships.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

This is so comical. Police officers doing an unconscious bias, anti-racism course…they can’t even march in unison. Utterly pathetic. Watch this 👇

[James Martin Charlton @jmc_fire]

@PostFromProtest @DAaronovitch You'll have to speak to Mr Farage about his inconsistencies, I am not here to defend him. But I am sure that the cherry picking isn't entirely with Reform (see George Floyd reactions).

[James Martin Charlton @jmc_fire]

The IOPC wouldn't be doing anything without the considerable public and (some) media outrage about the case. The coroner will also now probe the actions of the police - again, something which would likely not have happened if people had not lobbied for the video to be released. https://t.co/T1Z6aFLEKl

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: SPECIALIST DOCTOR SAYS HENRY NOWAK COULD HAVE LIVED IF NOT FOR POLICE

In summary:

- Henry was alive when they arrived and likely clotted
- Aggressive police intervention likely tore clot
- Major Trauma department was minutes away from scene
- Judge and Pathologist were FAR TOO LENIENT on Police
- Henry Nowak had 50% CHANCE to survive
- Absolutely convinced that if he arrived in hospital alive he would have survived

This is disgusting, the family deserve justice

Full breakdown below:

Dr Krzysztof Magier [@DrMagier] based in the Isle of Wight is a qualified Paediatric Care Lead and part of the 'Critical Care Network' with experience in combat medicine training and a specialized course in treating severe injuries (including gunshot and stab wounds) has analysed the footage and claimed the AGGRESSIVE Police intervention may have contributed towards Henry's death.

Dr Magier DISAGREES with the pathologist's and judge's opinion that Henry Nowak had ZERO chance of SURVIVAL.

As well as the claim that handcuffing him essentially changed NOTHING.

In fact he claims the REVERSE IS TRUE, there is a high likelihood that the police intervention CONTRIBUTED TO HENRY'S DEATH.

He analysed the autopsy report, which points to DAMAGE to the subclavian vein as the main source of BLEEDING.

In a healthy person, venous bleeding occurs under low pressure and often self-limits thanks to the NATURALLY FORMING CLOT, while simply approximating the wound edges and compressing the surrounding tissues closes the vein enough to slow or even stop the bleeding.

The body camera footage shows that when police arrived on the scene (likely 5-10 minutes after the injury), Henry was CONCIOUS ENOUGH to speak LOUDLY.

He was therefore NOT YET in a terminal state.

After his arms were twisted behind his back and handcuffed, the vein was most likely STRETCHED, the clot TORN, and BLEEDING DRAMATICALLY INTENSIFIED.

Within just about three minutes, he lost consciousness and DIED.

People with suspected internal injuries should NEVER be moved or yanked abruptly, such actions can destroy the natural clot and lead to massive internal hemorrhage.

Instead of immediately calling a medical rescue team and handing the patient over to paramedics, the police ARRESTED HIM.

If paramedics had arrived first on the scene, Henry’s chances of survival would have been MUCH HIGHER.

AS HIGH AS "50%"—writes Dr. Magier.

Paramedics could have quickly started an IV, administered fluids to increase circulating blood volume, and tranexamic acid to stabilize the clot, and if needed, performed needle decompression (inserting a large, long needle into the lung), because the issue wasn’t so much lack of lung function, but compression of the blood-filled lung on the heart and mediastinum, which blocks circulation.

Worse still, the incident took place just a few minutes' drive by car (2–3 minutes by ambulance with sirens) from Southampton University Hospital—a regional MAJOR TRAUMA CENTRE equipped with a full team of specialists, procedures, and equipment.

"I AM CONVINCED THAT IF HENRY HAD ARRIVED THERE ALIVE THE DOCTORS WOULD HAVE NOT LET HIM DIE"—writes Dr. Magier.

The aggressive police intervention, instead of saving a life, led to death through improper handling of a severely injured person, even though world-class care was just minutes away. "I fear the Judge and pathologist were too lenient toward the police"

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For goodness sake, it's the police response that people are taking issue with. The fact that they dragged a stabbed & dying young man across gravel, gaslit him about his own fatal condition, and handcuffed him without any reason. They read him his rights as he was breathing his last. What part of the outrageous injustice of this do you not get?

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@hellothisisivan I can think of worse.

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@hellothisisivan A 1970s Saturday Night Theatre play.

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@RachelT1722 @DAaronovitch He knows that.

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@DAaronovitch I have no idea why you’re bringing this up. But a young man stabbed and then wrongly accused could sit on that list, sadly.

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@DAaronovitch The same is not true for the police officers who failed Henry. But you know that.

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@OldRoberts953 I was just watching him and thinking something similar. I’m having to limit my exposure.

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@Steven_Swinford Our sympathies are with the family.

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@indiashairline @OldRoberts953 They don't believe it themselves.

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@OldRoberts953 She has "always been" an ally? From before the womb, presumably...

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@ClarkeMicah @DailyMail "heave themselves out of their cars" - very good.