Jonathan Sacerdoti

And our police aren't armed.

Those ones in particular were not armed police.

I believe if the armed police had got there quicker, that guy probably wouldn't have had his head kicked in.

He'd probably be dead.

So I suspect that there will be a lot of discussion to come out of it.

But I think Zach Polanski rushing to say that over everything else, rushing to try to make this an issue of police brutality against a potentially mentally unwell man, rather overlooked the actual point of the story, which is this guy had just stabbed Jews.

completely unprovoked in an indiscriminate way, possibly discriminate in that they're Jews.

And he saw them dressed that way and went for them.

That seemed to me to be the biggest story.

And I think our police do a really tough job in trying to keep people safe.

Well, look, I've not got a lot of experience of tackling, thank goodness, terrorists or even particularly in physical fights.

So I don't know what the best technique is.

But more broadly speaking, what I think was important to realise is, you know, lots of people said, oh, it's just another stabbing.

We've got loads of those in London all the time.

Why are you so obsessed with this one?

But I will say this, it's horrific whenever anyone gets stabbed in London.

Someone got stabbed, a young guy got stabbed at the end of my road a few years ago and killed and had nothing to do with Jews.

As far as I'm aware, it was completely unprovoked.

He was a young guy who wanted to become a lawyer.

Stabbing is really at epidemic levels and I think that is a big problem.