Sir Mark said the author of the post could have “direct experience from the scene” but suspected “the more likely scenario is that they [were] another armchair critic”. <\/p>\n
“Those officers are nothing short of extraordinary,” he wrote. “They were on the scene within a few minutes, and their actions undoubtedly prevented further injury and saved lives.” <\/p>\n
Sir Mark said that “apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world”. <\/p>\n
“Officers need to know that when they act to protect Londoners decisively, they will be supported.”<\/p>\n
He continued that, against the current backdrop, the right approach was not to inflame tensions further by “amplifying more ‘us and them rhetoric'”.<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat spokesperson Luke Taylor MP also criticised Polanski, describing his decision to repost the comment as “utterly disgraceful”. <\/p>\n
“That ludicrous response and his comments on ‘perception of fear’ in the Jewish community tells us a lot about the Green Party’s values,” he said.<\/p>\n
Essa Suleiman, 45, remains in police custody having been arrested on the suspicion of attempting to murder Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, in Golders Green on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Sir Mark said later the same day that the suspect had a history of serious violence and mental health issues, and was believed to be involved in a separate incident in south-east London on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Met declared formally declared the attack a terrorist incident.<\/p>\n
Polanski described the attack at the time as “horrendous” and said he was “thinking of the victims, their families and everyone who will once again be shaken by this attack”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Mark said the author of the post could have “direct experience from the scene” but suspected “the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-559333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}