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Troublemaker looks at highlights of the week's news

A police officer who allegedly hit a student in the head with a baton during protests in December 2010 faces a disciplinary hearing.

A jury unanimously acquitted student protesters Alfie Meadows and Zak King on Friday of last week.

A jury unanimously found student protesters Alfie Meadows and Zak King not guilty of violent disorder on Friday of last week. This follows a battle for almost two years with the police and the courts.

These are troubling times for the police. The march against cuts by 30,000 off-duty officers in May took place against a backdrop of widespread revulsion at police involvement in News International's illegal phone hacking operation, a scandal which has already led to the resignation of two of the Metropolitan Police's most senior police officers, Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates.