The filth hit an innocent woman and all Mairs can think off is have some “police expert” on to tell how justified it is sometimes to control crowds by hitting them with batons. It’s shocking to hear this violence being normalised when the video shows the casual backhander a cop gives a woman half his size, then take his baton out and hit her on the legs as her back is turned. In some ways it’s worse footage than what was showed of Ian Tomlinson, as there the situation had already kicked off while here you had a bogstandard peaceful political protest in which the police with no reason started attacking people trying to leave.
Eddie Mairs’ disgraceful performance fits in well though with the general BBC attitude of sucking up to the police and their silencing of police outrages. Ian Tomlinson only rate a one sentence mention and was thought of as “just a London story” until the Beeb was forced to report on it through blogs and the Guardian keeping the story alive. Further back of course there’s the infamous incident in which BBC newscasts showed footage of police attacking the miner strikes in reverse order, making it appear as if the police defended themselves against the miners rather than the other way around.