Most think it's down to stupid jurors, dont try and sell a narrative that isnt balanced. You have basically done yourself over though with the very first thing you typed which was :-
I don't agree with verdict.
You then say you weren't party to everything, if thats your stance then fine but you therefore can't either agree or disagree with the verdict.
Unfortunately people will use this for political reasons but you are doing the same really.
Round and round we go.
No, I can say how 'I feel' but I can also understand objectively that the jury's decision is theirs to make in all the circumstances.
As i said in another post there were numerous times when I'd come away from court really frustrated how we had 'lost'..
eg, I stopped the driver of a car and he had an asp in the door pocket-similar to the ones police have. At court his defence was that he used it to start his car. Of course that was a lie. The mags found him not guilty-and then simultaneously sentenced him for an outstanding matter-possessing a baseball bat with nails in it...I think they were somewhat embarrassed.
I also spent hours as part of a Newton Hearing explaining why as the Inspector I had asked my officers to arrest 3 individuals for aggravated trespass (a trail hunt) and let the dozens of others go-my argument which was accepted by the court that they in failing to give their details were masters of their own demise (because I hadn't used S24 and was not going to lie)..and then the CPS dropped it because one of those arrested said that she didn't speak to me and I didn't warn her-(which is needed to commit the full offence)-In the box I stated, 'with respect she spent most of the day calling me a ginger haired ****'.
So it was a lie but they all walked. And I had to deal with internal misconduct because they all then complained of unlawful arrest-
I've also spent hours in the box trying to demonstrate that a road at the back of some houses was indeed a road for drink drive purposes-i produced maps and everything-I can assure you it was a road-and the defendant was guilty-but the court decided otherwise.
My point being I do think the assailant assaulted the officer-but that does not stop the defence putting forward a defence to that (because we can all see that he does 'assault' him) which negates that-inc as Gordon rightly alluded to, an honestly held belief held by the defendant, or some other defence put forward that the some members of the jury accepted. That's what I mean, I am not party to everything-and that also includes other evidence, police and witness accounts, interviews with suspects etc which none of us are party to.
The system rightly allows defendants to put forward a defence and it is for the prosecution to prove it beyond ALL reasonable doubt.