Brickbat: Swing and a Miss

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Police officials in Manchester, England, said officers did nothing wrong when they arrested a man carrying a baseball bat in the city center. Video of the arrest, which showed an officer tackling the man to the ground, went viral, sparking criticism online. The man, who wasn’t named, was later released with no further action because investigators could not prove he intended to use the bat as a weapon. Under British law, carrying an ordinary object such as a baseball bat in public is not a crime unless police can show the person carrying intended to use it to harm someone.

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