Actor Reece Richards, performing in a play in London, says that four thugspepper-sprayed him and held him down on the ground, They were chasing someoneelse who was in a vehicle.

Everyone makes mistakes, so I can't condemn those thugs for mistakenlythinking that Richards had something to do with the fleeing vehicle.But since that was just a suspicion, they should have realized thatRichards might have been a bystander. And even if he were guilty,they had no grounds to be so violent to a person who was not fightingthem. That is the typical dangerous excess of thugs.