We don’t want to look as if we’re fixated with Saturday’s protests — we’re disgusted at what things have come to — but the head of the Victorian Police Association, a union that commands much the same respect as John Setka’s division of the CFMEU — has made a clanger that would see a cadet journo guilty of a similar slip nailed to the wall and deserves to be called out.

Asked about a video circulating on social media appearing to show police pushing over a 74 year old woman and pepper-spraying her while she lay on the road, Police Association...