What the Mainstream Media Got Wrong: The Truth About the Abbey Road Police Incident
Forget the headlines—our inside analysis uncovers the critical details the mainstream media missed and the real dangers officers faced on the front line
When you report on what’s happening on the front line of the emergency services, some incidents stick with you. This will be one of them.
It’s 7:45 AM on Abbey Road, Park Royal, London. A member of the public calls the police after spotting a man drinking behind the wheel of a car and driving recklessly. Before officers can even get him out of the vehicle, the situation turns into a nightmare for the two Met officers, who I assume are attached to the Met’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU).
What happens next is the kind of thing that should be front-page news.
An officer—on foot—moves in to stop the suspect. Instead of doing the right thing, the driver slams the car into reverse and runs him over. You can actually see the moment of impact—the officer goes down, but somehow, he gets back up just moments later.
Even after being knocked down, even after the force of a reversing car sends him flying, he pushes forward. As his colleague tries to stop the driver, the injured officer makes it back to his police vehicle and tries twice to ram the suspect off the road before the driver disappears.
Police later found the car. But the driver? Gone.
The mainstream media ran their usual headlines, but, no surprises here, they completely botched key details. One reporter even claimed a second police car was involved. It wasn’t. Those officers were alone. No backup. No support. Just two cops—one of them injured—against a suspect willing to drive through and over them to escape.
Our own former Met Police officer, who spent nearly a decade on a 999 response team in East London, has broken the footage down. Every key detail, every moment, every missed opportunity—because this isn’t just about one incident. It’s about how officers on the ground are left without the tools they need while senior brass worry about how things look.
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