Met Police Assistant Commissioner would have ‘probably’ joined BLM protesters if he was not an officer

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When Neil Basu joined the Metropolitan Police in 1992, he admits that his friends and family thought he was insane.

Today, Assistant Commissioner Basu has risen to be the UK’s highest-ranking officer from an ethnic minority.

We went to meet him and began by asking if he defends the decision of police in Bristol and London to hang back, when public monuments were defaced?