Mark Rowley defends officers who arrested suspect in Wednesday’s incident and calls on Green party leader to show solidarity
The Metropolitan police chief has said that Green party leader Zack Polanski sharing a post about the arrest of the Golders Green terror suspect will have a “chilling effect”.
Met officers arrested a 45-year-old man after two Jewish people were stabbed in the suburb of north-west London on Wednesday. Police said the suspect was shot with a stun gun to subdue him.
The incident is being treated as terrorism and police have been in discussions about the case with lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorises criminal charges in England and Wales.
Polanski retweeted, without comment, a post on X accusing officers on the scene of “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated from being Tasered.
