Zack Polanski’s criticism of Golders Green attack arrest will have ‘chilling effect’, says Met chief

The Metropolitan police chief has said that Green party leader Zack Polanski sharing a post about the arrest of the Golders Green terror suspect will have a “chilling effect”. Met officers arrested a 45-year-old man after two Jewish people were stabbed in the suburb of north-west London on Wednesday. Police said the suspect was shot with a stun gun to subdue him. The incident is being treated as terrorism and police have been in discussions about the case with lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorises criminal charges in England and Wales. Polanski retweeted, without comment, a post on X accusing officers on the scene of “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated from being Tasered. However, the Met commissioner, Mark Rowley, said in a letter to the Green party leader that he believed the post was “inaccurate and misinformed commentary” and that police officers “are nothing short of extraordinary”, saying: “Without their efforts to stop him I dread to think what the outcome could have been.” He added: “London’s Jewish communities are scared. They have experienced a series of targeted attacks on the community, and they expect our officers to act, protect them. “That is exactly what our officers did yesterday. …