SCENE TO SHAME BRITAIN
Crowds film as officers attacked... and just one person tries to help
THIS is the sickening sight of two police officers being attacked as a jeering crowd gathered to film it.
Police have warned they are becoming ‘society’s punchbags’ as home secretary Priti Patel said she was shocked by the footage from hackney, east London.
thugs pinned the constable to the ground and punched and kicked him until a resident appeared brandishing a baseball bat to break it up. A female probation officer was also kicked as she tried to help.
Just moments earlier, the officers had been flagged down by a member of the public who reported an assault. When they confronted the victim’s alleged assailant, a fight broke out.
Yesterday the hero with the baseball bat told why he ran to their aid.
Kemran, who didn’t want to give his surname, said: ‘My aim was to not take any side but try to defuse the tension.’ the 23-year-old acted as a shield for the officer while he tried to reason with the youths.
three men aged 34, 32 and 20 and a boy aged 13 were arrested in association with the attack which caused the officers minor injuries.
Metropolitan Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh said: ‘We are not society’s punchbags. We have families we want to go home to.’
there was a 27 per cent increase in assaults on officers over the last 12 months and in 2018/19 there were more than 30,000 attacks on officers in England and Wales – or 85 a day.
Mrs Patel tweeted: ‘ sickening, shocking and disgraceful. My thoughts are with the outstanding police officers who were subject to this disgusting violent attack.’