Cressida Dick refuses to quit over vigil policing and dismisses 'armchair critics'

Metropolitan police chief stands firm after criticism from London mayor and home secretary

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Britain's most senior police chief defied pressure to resign as she dismissed armchair" critics amid widespread outrage over officers manhandling women who were mourning the killing of Sarah Everard.

Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, was publicly rebuked by the home secretary, Priti Patel, and the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, for providing an unsatisfactory explanation of why police broke up a vigil for Everard in London's Clapham Common on Saturday, near where she was allegedly abducted before being murdered.