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nick_h.
He was going straight towards the car containing the head of state, the lead motorbike is the guy doing al the whistling, SEG use whistles not sirens (I can’t stand the royal family but even I can see that would be recognised as a potential threat.) I think being stopped roller blading directly into a secure convoy with armed escorts by being bundled onto the ground , which is not a particularly severe use of force, is a reasonable use of force.
I remember reading an interview with those police bikers in a bike magazine years back, their job is to stop you getting at their high risk subject and the convoy won’t stop to discuss your roller blading choices. One was explaining how a biker had to hit a car that was coming towards the convoy to stop it in the past. If the copper hadn’t grabbed roller boy I suspect the bikers would’ve rammed him or worse.