US police defend 'knocking historian to ground'
Police in America tonight defended the actions of an officer who allegedly knocked a distinguished British historian to the ground after he crossed the road in the wrong place.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a self-described “ageing, mild-mannered” scholar, was held in a jail for eight hours after he inadvertently committed the offence of “jaywalking” in Atlanta, Georgia, last week.
