“Security’s responsibility is to get the VIP out of the area,” said Chase, whose firm provides international diplomatic security services. But experts in security and diplomacy say Vickers’ decision to take matters into his own hands raises serious questions of judgment. A spokesman at the Irish embassy in Ottawa said Friday he could offer no comment whatsoever on the incident. The ambassador’s televised take-down of Murphy at the Grangegorman Military Cemetery was greeted with widespread cheers on Canadian social media. Video of the altercation appears to show Vickers briefly chasing Murphy before forcibly wrestling him along a walkway past a stone-faced guard of honour.

Source: National Post May 28, 2016 14:26 UTC