MP Mark Field grabs female protester by throat

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I hope she presses charges. Totally unnecessary and unacceptable.

Wouldn't be at all surprised if he has form for DV.

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I find it utterly bizarre that anyone would defend what he did. He hasn't, for god's sake - he's apologised and referred himself for investigation. Even if you think that's all just politicking then how can you defend something that the person who did it has obviously decided is indefensible?

DrSusan - interestingly, below that story about Jeremy Hunt's wife is another story about a protestor at Esther McVey's campaign launch:

'AN ANGRY protester stormed the stage at Esther McVey’s leadership campaign launch yesterday — declaring her a ‘fake Conservative’.

Onlookers jeered when the man, who later gave his name as Graham Moore, grabbed a microphone and shouted: ‘You are all fake news.’ As three men stepped up, Mr Moore, 55, from south London, yelled: ‘Touch me, I’ll have you nicked.’

He then left the stage, closely followed by the men, with Ms McVey at one point laughing and clapping.'

Funny, isn't it, how nobody felt the need to grab this man by the neck? Even though he aggressively made his way to the stage and could have posed a direct threat - unlike the female protestor, who was just walking past Field.

What we saw with Field was old-fashioned male violence against women. I expected to see the usual suspects on Twitter defending it, but not people on the feminism board.

the amount of gaslighting on this thread made me go back and watch the longer clip in slow motion, wondering what I'd missed. but no, it still looks like a man deliberately attacking a woman

picture 1 - she tries to get round him, he turns to intercept her

picture 2, Mr Field with a raised hand after pushing her against the pillar

picture 3. him marching her out, you can clearly see his hands round the back of her neck

anyone who is OK with this is seriously mistaken

I can’t understand why there was no security to intervene immediately...if I was a political figure at the moment I’d be somewhat on edge if I saw someone approaching the stage who was obviously not a guest. To make a link between this MP and dv is just ridiculous. What are you supposed to do if you genuinely fear there may be an attack....ask them nicely if they’re a terrorist and would they very much mind leaving.

Anyway she appeared to be fine and got lots of publicity which is presumably her aim.

Shame on any woman who purposefully defends a violent man being clearly violent at a woman.

What the fuck are you lot on.

He wasn't frightened, that much was obvious. This was a man who was angry at women being inconvenient.

I do think people are being hysterical by suggesting she might have had a gun!

She was highly unlikely to have had a gun in her bag. Firearms are very difficult to get hold of in this country, due to the strict laws we have here.

Yes gangs and OCGs get hold of them (often one firearm is shared round and borrowed when required) but this was a female Greenpeace protestor and unlikely to have those contacts.

Wonder what he would have done if he wasn't in a public place being filmed.

He is clearly assaulting her.

Not that this is a private club or you have to be a card-carrying feminist to post here but..... am I wrong or do we have a few 'newbies' here today, defending the indefensible?

I wonder how many of those defending this man's actions went batshit when Farage had milkshake thrown over him.

I reckon that Venn diagram is probably a pretty perfect circle.

A man can shove a woman and grab her by the neck with the entire incident captured on video and then shown on national news - and still people will rush to deny that the woman was assaulted and/or declare that she was clearly asking for it.

Violence is violence. Who was the violent one here? Why is anyone defending him? Why would anyone defend him?

Both of them behaved badly, she started the chain of events and should take responsibility for her own actions and he responded too heavily handed. It's too black and white to blame only one party, there's more blame to go around.

He's a disgrace.

Nobody else she walked past looked in any way threatened by her. Had they done so they’d have at least turned around to look at her. Field acted out of temper. He wrote a letter previously to Cressida Dick complaining about the climate protests. He should be prosecuted.

To all those saying "she might have had a gun or a knife", you can see quite clearly from the footage and stills that it would have been apparent to Mark Field the second he turned round in his chair to confront her, that she had her bag over her left arm and her mobile phone clutched in her right hand. I don't believe he felt threatened at all.

Yes, he just looked furious to me, and that fury boiled over into temper

I'm most definitely not a newbie. I'm finding this argument that the woman is blameless and conflating it with domestic abuse really really problematic.

He overreacted for sure but in the current climate you'd have to be hard of thinking not to understand why.

Both are to blame as other pps have said.

He may have his hands on her neck as he makes her walk out, but what I see is she's trying to walk past him and he goes for her throat, initially.

It's pretty clear he's angry, not afraid.

He overreacted for sure but in the current climate you'd have to be hard of thinking not to understand why.

What 'current climate'? If you're referring to Jo Cox then that was horrible but it was 3 years ago and there have been no similar incidents since.

You are to all extents and purposes excusing his actions. She wasn't approaching him personally and showed no signs of being dangerous. This was an event with high-profile people, including the Chancellor, present. There would certainly have been professional security people there who could have dealt with the intrusion appropriately.

This was not appropriate.

So what if he's angry? I'd be bloody angry!

His hand isn't on the back of her neck in these ones. That happens after - you can see she's pushing him off in one of these.