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As the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, mentioned, the reaction from firearms officers was to do with two things—the charging of the officer in the first place and the compound effect of the lack of anonymity. I do not think that many of them laid their weapons down. There may have been a threat to, as that was an emotional reaction, but it did not happen because they are honourable people who know that, if they walk away, nobody is there to help, so they will keep doing their job on the whole.