Police must apologise for ‘knee on neck’ arrest in UK, says lawyer

Met police officer suspended

The lawyer for a man who was arrested as a British police officer knelt on his neck – in a case that “mirrors almost identically what happened to George Floyd” – has called for a formal apology from Scotland Yard.

Marcus Coutain, 48, was filmed pleading with officers to “get off my neck” as he was handcuffed on the pavement in Islington, north London, on Thursday evening.