…..is to be charged with assault. The CPS say there is enough evidence to prosecute. The officer has been served with a summons and is currently suspended.
And how the victim appears so calm, collected and effortlessly superior; not that she provoked the Sergeant in any way, oh no.
I don’t think she was ranting or anything like that, or abusive, or in the face of the officer or that this altercation was beginning to rile other protesters against the police…..such that the public order incident was in danger of getting worse.
Common sense appears not to prevail here and the service, ACPO and the Federation do not appear to have the balls to say officers may use reasonable force. The perpetrator in this, from the video evidence we have seen, appears to have been the victim; who now magically appears to have grown a silver tongue.