Originally Posted by Flyboy

Would that be the same as his "hoodie hugging" policy then?

As the criminals were quite clearly none the worse for wear after their encounter, it would seem that reasonable force was used, therefore there would have been no call for any prosecution for the man who through the bicycle. Ergo, I fail to see the point of the original question.

I presume this a counter argument to the Munir Hussain case. There is hardly much of a compassion to be honest, is there? Hussain and his gang beat the living daylights out of someone and this person threw a bicycle, not quite the same.