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Naomi - // He was with a group of men drinking beer but the report doesn’t say that anyone else was asked to leave which suggests that he was singled out because he was recognised. Therefore the judge is mistaken. He is as well
Known as he thinks he is. //
I read the report somewhat differently.
It would appear from the officer's evidence that 'Tommy', as usual, lost no opportunity to turn a conversation with a police officer into a 'news report' for his website, and I think we can reasonably assume that stance 'Tommy' would be taking once his camera phone was out of his pocket - and recording.
As the officer advised, that turns a conversation into a pantomime, and given that it is again reasonable to assume that 'Tommy' would be being typically loudly vocal about the perceived injustice he was receiving.
The officer again not unreasonably identifying him as the lead mouthpiece of a group of leery intoxicated football fans acted in the interests of defusing a potentially difficult situation by removing what he saw as the main cause of potential trouble.
That makes 'Tommy Robinson' just one more mouthy yob sounding off in a loud voice for the benefit of his friends on a Saturday afternoon, it doesn't need him to be 'famous' to have received the response he did from the officer - just what he is - a football yob with a big mouth and an over-inlfated sense of his own importance.