Senior policing and political figures have condemned attackers who lashed out at police and threatened them with a baseball bat yesterday, with Home Secretary Priti Patel branding the violent scenes as “sickening, shocking and disgraceful”. Passersby could be seen posing for selfies as two officers were allegedly assaulted while trying to speak to a suspect in Hackney, East London. Footage shows one of the officers falling to the floor as he grapples with a suspect, who Met Police say had been pointed out to officers following an assault. As a crowd gathered around one of the officers, a second man...