West Midlands Police has apologised after a man heading to work was threatened with arrest under Covid laws, called an "idiot" and forced into a car.
Viral video recorded by the shocked man shows him being challenged by an officer who was out with a partner enforcing lockdown laws in Solihull, West Midlands.
In the clip, viewed more than a million times on Twitter, a male officer from threatens to arrest the man when he refuses to provide his name.
During Wednesday's incident outside Dorridge railway station, the man tells the officer: "You don't need to know who I am. I haven't committed an offence, mate." As the video made the rounds on social media, the force said it was "clear that the officer’s conduct fell far below what we would
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