I hesitate to try and analyse this at all, but I do think it is important that the Met Police Officer, Cousins, fraudulently used *Covid laws* as the means of abducting Sarah Everard. I imagine (though this is speculation) that he did so because he knew they were so wide...
... and poorly understood by the general public that he could convince both Sarah and any witnesses (who apparently saw the fake arrest and assumed she had "done something wrong") that they applied even though Sarah was doing absolutely nothing wrong, walking alone...
... back from work (could not have been an offence + there was no power of arrest under Covid laws). Her boyfriend said she was not gullible so would have needed to be manipulated, and the officer, who had worked on "Covid patrols", clearly saw this is as the perfect manipulation 
As I said during the periods of lockdown laws, they were so widely drafted, and poorly understood, that the potential for abuse and mistakes was high. They were almost a blank canvas. This is the extreme end of that, though hopefully in its horrific severity an isolated incident
I asked police officers a couple of months before Sarah's murder how they felt about the Covid laws - a number contacted me and said they saw the dangers in the width and loss of public trust in the police following abuse of the laws
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1348361600705691648?s=20
I don't know if this is such an extreme case that it has no real lessons in the context of this fraudulent arrest - but at least it should make us reflect on the emergency laws which gave police vast powers over our lives and perhaps damaged our trust of police for a generation
There is also a bitter irony that when @ReclaimTS attempted to organise a peaceful vigil in memory of Sarah Everard, it was the unclear and oppressive Covid laws which were used by the police to prohibit them from doing so.
So sorry, *Couzens* not "Cousins"- autocorrect fail
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