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officer who shot Khalid Masood (the attacker) dead. Gaby
Hinsliff in The Guardian wrote: “A Met chief stayed in his car during an attack. That’s not leadership.” Her article stated that “………. what apparently most enrages those officers now condemning Mackey is a sense that their own leaders wouldn’t do what is asked of them every day, and that perhaps speaks to a more deep-rooted sense of betrayal going back years. It’s horribly unfair to call Craig Mackey a coward, particularly from the safety of civilian armchairs. He made what was in all probability the cowardly decision. But it does not, somehow, look like the decision of a leader. In fact it stinks of the 'do as I say, not as I do' double standards of today's politically sensitive police service management.”
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