The incident happened as Mark Rowley left an emergency COBRA meeting at Whitehall.
ADVERTISEMENTMetropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley appeared to grab a reporter's microphone as he left an emergency Cobra meeting on Monday.
Rowley was seen leaving the talks on Whitehall and walking past gathered media when a reporter asked him a question about two-tier policing.
In response, Rowley appeared to deliberately handle the microphone and drop it to the ground.
Rowley had been meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his cabinet to discuss days of escalating violence which followed the recent stabbings of three young girls in Southport.
The meeting comes after former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf called for the Army to be deployed in order to bring an end to the violent chaos and rioting across the UK.
In a statement from 10 Downing Street on Sunday afternoon, the Keir Starmer vowed that the authorities will “do whatever it takes to bring these thugs to justice" and that justice will be swift.
He also strongly condemned an attack Sunday on a hotel housing asylum seekers that saw at least 10 police officers injured, one seriously, describing it as “far-right thuggery."
“People in this country have a right to be safe, and yet we’ve seen Muslim communities targeted, attacks on mosques, other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric, so no, I won’t shy away from calling it what it is: far-right thuggery,” Starmer said.