by Bethany Rielly
PRESSURE is mounting on the Metropolitan Police to sack a police officer filmed punching a black teenager outside a school in north London.
The circulation of the video on social media sparked outrage last week, prompting protests last Friday.
The Met claimed that three officers were injured after a 16-year-old was detained during a stop and search outside a school in Haringey on December 8.
In a statement on December 11, police said that they circled the teenager after a crowd gathered. Four 16-year-olds were arrested during the incident and released on bail.
Local activists in Tottenham today disputed the Met’s version of events, condemning claims that officers were injured as “pure fiction.”