Home Secretary calls for ‘urgent explanation’ after police stop cow with car
The Home Secretary James Cleverly has asked for a “full, urgent explanation” as to why officers appeared to use a police car to ram an escaped cow.
Mr Cleverly said it seemed “unnecessarily heavy handed” while wildlife presenter and conservationist Chris Packham asked: “What sort of monster rams a calf?”
The RSPCA described the footage as “upsetting and distressing” and said the police “action appears disproportionate to the situation”.
It came after footage appeared online which showed the young cow in a residential street being hit twice by a police car, as
