Zac Polanski

How did you get to that place?

I think you can both recognise the bravery of officers who run towards incidents that most of us, including myself, would certainly want to run away from and find the appropriate forum to say that no one, especially the police, should be above scrutiny.

The reason why I've apologised is I accept that wasn't the appropriate forum.

As a member of the London Assembly, a place I know you know well, the Police and Crime Committee would be an appropriate place or indeed a meeting with the Commissioner, which I'm pleased I've reached out and he's now agreed to.

I do also think, by the way, open letters aren't an appropriate way to do politics either in a local election.

But I accept all of that and I'll be having that conversation with the commissioner.

But you chose X to do this.

Well, the first thing I did was recognise that this was a horrific crime and I showed solidarity to the victims and their families.

I then thanked the emergency responders for the brave work they did.

I found it all very traumatic, especially as a Jewish person, and I also found the video that was circulating online traumatic too.

I accept, though, that conversation about that video needs to be had with the commissioner rather than on X. So you're the leader of a political party?