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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardmanman and I'm joined by James

Forsythe and Katie Balls. Well today an inspectorate report on the Metropolitan Police's

actions at the vigil for Sarah Everard concluded that the police acted appropriately when they

were photographed handcuffing women on the ground. Katie, are you surprised by the findings of this report?

Well, I think when the decision was made to obviously push this to a watchdog to look into it, it felt like it was a point where lots of people were very upset, emotions were riding high, and there was a lot of anger.

And almost by delaying probably a search into what

exactly happened you would calm things around and potentially make it easier I think for

cressor dick and her force but yeah I do think it's surprising I think that most people who

saw the images from that night thought there was definite overreach I think however there is also something is also something else going on, which is, and I think it's come

to light a bit more, almost this disconnect between politicians and how the police acted.

So I think there do seem to be issues in terms of the judgment in that place.

We've heard Cressor Dick probably saying, though, that people like me, armchair critics,

you know, she doesn't really care because she's going to stand by her police before they had this review.

And obviously it is harder to, I think if someone who doesn't experience, it's hard to judge exactly.

But clearly it did look pretty controversial some of the things. But I do think it goes back to this point, which is the police, while there was some overreach,

were also just ultimately putting into false questionable legislation, which lots of these politicians did back and vote for.

And at the time, there were warnings in some of these debates, particularly from certain Tory back benches,

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