Susanna Reid blasts Met Police apology to women arrested at Sarah Everard vigilGood Morning Britain, ITV
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police
00:01 said the actions of officers were found to...
00:03 Were found to have been appropriate.
00:07 They act...
00:08 - Inappropriate, I think that should say.
00:09 - Well, okay, let's get the wording right,
00:13 because I think we all know
00:16 there was nothing appropriate going on.
00:18 - They haven't given a full accountability apology,
00:20 in my opinion. - That, the word isn't right.
00:22 - They've worded it in a certain way, because they, yeah.
00:25 - Oh, I... - Then this is absolutely, sorry.
00:26 - The wording of the apology was classic,
00:29 modern blame avoidance.
00:30 - Well, this is, we need to read this statement.
00:32 Let's read this statement.
00:33 - Okay, yeah. - The statement from the Met.
00:33 - So let's go back to it then.
00:34 This is remarkable.
00:35 So a spokesperson for the Met said,
00:37 "The actions of officers were found to have been appropriate.
00:39 "They acted in good faith,
00:41 "interpreting complex and changing legislation
00:42 "in very challenging circumstances
00:44 "in a way that was entirely consistent
00:45 "with their colleagues working across London at the time."
00:48 How do you feel about that statement?
00:50 - I feel like, because this has been so long,
00:54 and we, I mean, I was convicted,
00:56 I mean, there was so much that happened
00:58 in the last few years, that to hear them say sorry,
01:01 or like, okay, we're happy with that.
01:03 - Yes. - But there hasn't been
01:04 full accountability, and there's two sides to it.
01:06 - There never will be, with the Met especially,
01:08 there never will be.
01:09 But the point of it is that, you know, they've...
01:14 - They've, there has been a, an apology,
01:18 so we're taking that.
01:19 - It's a very small, carefully worded one.
01:21 - Sounds to me like we need to get some Mark Rowley