A man who was detained while a police officer appeared to kneel on his neck should be given a formal apology, his lawyer has said.
Marcus Coutain, 48, was filmed telling officers "get off my neck" as he was arrested north London on Thursday.
His lawyer Tim Rustem said the events "mirrored almost identically what happened to George Floyd", who died after being restrained in the US.
One Met officer has been suspended and another placed on restricted duties.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is conducting an investigation.
On Saturday, Mr Coutain pleaded not guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court to possessing a knife in public.
Speaking outside court, Mr Rustem said the Crown Prosecution Service should review the case, drop the charges and offer a "formal apology" to Mr Coutain.
Mr Rustem said his client was legally carrying a blade for the purposes of repairing his bicycle.
"Essentially Mr Coutain was stopped and searched for matters for which he has not been charged," he said.
"It is the use of what I would regard as excessive force, a knee being placed on his neck ... references which mirror exactly what happened to George Floyd in America.
"A man saying 'I can't breathe' and 'get your knee off my neck', while he was already handcuffed and while he was restrained by two police officers."
He said his client was lucky to have only "minimal" injuries to his wrists and neck, adding: "Fortunately it didn't lead to the tragic consequences that we saw in America."
Deputy Commissioner Sir Steve House described footage of the arrest in Islington as "deeply disturbing" and said some of the techniques, which were "not taught in police training", caused him "great concern".
In Islington, about 30 people gathered outside the police station in protest against how Mr Coutain was arrested.
The case has been sent to Snaresbrook Crown Court on 17 August.
Councils in England now have extra powers to impose shutdowns if clusters of coronavirus appear - but central government will step in if local authorities don't go far enough or act fast enough, Grant Shapps has told Sky News.
From today, councils can close specific premises, shut public outdoor spaces and cancel events.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the powers would "enable local authorities to act more quickly in response to outbreaks where speed is paramount".
Mr Shapps, the secretary of state for transport, told Sky News: "They will have the powers and they will be able to act immediately, wherever that's required… but the powers will be there, which is a change in order to make these things happen faster and be more responsive to the position on the ground."
But he added: "Ultimately, government has ultimate power and control."
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It comes amid concerns around two areas where the number of coronavirus cases are rising: Wakefield in West Yorkshire and Burton in Staffordshire.
Sky News' Fraser Maude, who is in Wakefield, said the council insists the overall figures are relatively low.
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Image:Wakefield is one of the places where there's concern over rising cases
"They don't believe that they're anywhere near implementing any of the lightning lockdowns which have now been approved by the PM," he said. "But people are being urged to protect themselves."
Wakefield is now registering 20 new cases per 100,000 of population - up from 14.
There are three "mini hotspots": a meat factory in the city where 17 people have tested positive; a factory where four people have tested positive; and a centre for asylum seekers where there have been 20 reported cases.
Wakefield's director of public health, Anna Hartley, said the government's data-gathering technology had improved and the council was "absolutely on top of it".
She said they now had "a very comprehensive early warning system which not only looks at postcode data but also phone calls to GPS. We even track social media coverage on that".
Manchester's mayor, Andy Burnham, has also called on the government to share more detailed information so further local lockdowns can be avoided.
"We do need better data from the government and I've been making the argument for some time that we need named patient data and we're not getting that at the moment," he told Sky News.
Mr Burnham added: "The government needs to give us all the tools we need to act quickly to prevent the worst case scenario which is a local lockdown like we've seen in Leicester...
"A postcode can point you to a general area, a name takes you directly to the source of the outbreak - and that enables people to act more effectively on the ground."
Next week, the prime minister will give details on extra powers for central government that will allow parliament to close factories and entire sectors of the economy in specific regions.
The powers will include enforcing stay-at-home orders, preventing people entering or leaving areas, closing roads, restricting public transport and reducing the maximum size of gatherings.
In a tweet today, Mr Johnson said: "Action by local councils will not always be sufficient, so next week we will publish draft regulations explaining how central government can intervene at a local level."
He added: "It has to be right that we take local action in response to local outbreaks - there is no point shutting down a city in one part of the country to contain an outbreak in another part of the country."
Mr Johnson hailed successes in Weston-super-Mare and Kirkless after outbreaks at specific premises; in Bradford, Blackburn and Darwen where he said testing was increased; and in Leicester where he said rates of infection had been "stubborn".
It comes as the row over how the lockdown in Leicester and some surrounding areas was imposed, with very little advance notice.
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The city's Labour mayor has accused the government of penalising businesses and residents in a city that predominantly votes Labour.
The rate of new coronavirus cases per 100,000 population in Leicester dropped from 126.1 in the seven days to 7 July to 92.9 in the seven days to 14 July, according to data published on Friday.
NHS figures on Saturday recorded another 13 coronavirus hospital deaths in England.
The Department for Health has said it is "pausing" daily death figures for the whole of the UKafter Health Secretary Matt Hancock ordered a review into claims there were "statistical flaws".
The UK government is to stop publishing daily coronavirus deathsafter health secretary Matt Hancock ordered an urgent review into how Public Health England (PHE) calculates the figures.
The health secretary called for a review after researchers claimed the way Covid-19 deaths are reported across England has led to an "over-exaggeration" of the figures.
PHE's calculation of the figures means England’s deaths from coronavirus appear far higher than any other part of the UK, experts behind the study said.
On the coronavirus statistics page on Saturday, a statement said the government would be pausing the updates until issue was "resolved".
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The statement on the government's website read: "The Secretary of State has today, 17 July, asked PHE to urgently review their estimation of daily death statistics.
"Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death.
"There have been claims that the lack of cut-off may distort the current daily deaths number.
"We are therefore pausing the publication of the daily figure while this is resolved."
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In a blog entitled “Why no-one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England – a statistical anomaly”, Professors Yoon Loke, from the University of East Anglia, and Carl Heneghan, from the University of Oxford, said more robust data is needed into how the data was collated.
They argue that PHE looks at whether a person has ever tested positive and whether they are still alive at a later date.
This means anyone who has ever tested positive for Covid-19 and then dies is included in the death figures, even if they have died from something else.
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The move comes after researchers criticised "statistical flaws" in the way the deaths are reported across England, saying they are left looking far worse than any other part of the UK. PHE's figures feed into the daily death statistics published by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Data from Public Health Wales, Health Protection Scotland and the Northern Ireland Public Health Agency is also fed in.
According to a note on the Government's website, the review means it is "pausing" the publication of the daily death figure "while this is resolved".
The daily DHSC data represents the number of reported deaths of people who have tested positive for Covid-19, who have died in all settings.
But in a blog entitled "Why no-one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England - a statistical anomaly", Professors Yoon Loke, from the University of East Anglia, and Carl Heneghan, from the University of Oxford, said more robust data is needed.
They argued that PHE looks at whether a person has ever tested positive and whether they are still alive at a later date.
This means anyone who has ever tested positive for COVID-19 and then dies is included in the death figures, even if they have died from something else.
The report said: "PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the Covid test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community.
"Anyone who has tested Covid positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE Covid death figures.
Russia has reported 6,234 new coronavirus cases and 124 deaths in the past 24 hours.
8.48am update: 25 million infected in Iran
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has said 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it.
The figures, which Mr Rouhani said were based on a new Health Ministry report, are far higher Iran's official toll of 269,440 infected.
Iran, with a population of more than 80 million, has been the Middle East country hardest hit by the epidemic.
He said: "Our estimate is that as of now 25 million Iranians have been infected with this virus and about 14,000 have lost their dear lives.
"There is the possibility that between 30 and 35 million other people will be at risk.
"In total, more than 200,000 people have been hospitalised."
8.29am update: Capacity to go back to work
Grant Shapps said there is capacity on public transport for more people to use it to go back to work.
He added: "We are quite close to full capacity but the usage of public transport is way down.
"We have been very careful to ask people not to flood back too quickly and they have not, and so we are seeing many cases of quite empty, for example, trains.
"There's more capacity there, you can now return. Anyone, not just key workers, can use public transport.
"I would recommend trying to avoid the busier times of day, but as people return to work - and the Prime Minister asked employers and employees to look at doing that particularly from August 1 - the public transport is there."
The transport secretary said social distancing rules are still in force on public transport.
8.17am update: Return to normal is 'long way off'
Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), has said a return to pre-lockdown normality is "a long way off".
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "Unfortunately I think it is quite a long way away.
"If what you mean by normality is what we used to do until February and the middle of March this year - go to work normally, travel on the buses and trains, go on holiday without restrictions, meet friends, shake hands, hug each other and so on - that's a long way off, unfortunately.
"We won't be able to do that until we are immune to the virus, which means until we have a vaccine that is proven safe and effective.
"If we return to those sort of normal behaviours the virus will come back very fast."
8.08am update: Possible to return to normal by Christmas
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it is possible for the country to return to normality by Christmas.
He told BBC Breakfast the Prime Minister's announcement was about giving people a "sense of direction".
He added: "It's giving people a road map, really, so we can give people some hope whilst planning for the worst as well.
"We want to give people some sense of direction, because a lot of people are running businesses or rely on the Christmas period and need to know that if everything goes well that this is our intention.
"But you can't get away from the fact that the virus is still, in many ways, a bit of an unknown, and of course it depends how millions of people respond and how good and alert we are in terms of all the things we know, like washing your hands and for the time being keeping that distance of one metre plus."
7.55am update: Lockdown approach 'less effective' in BAME communities
Lockdown measures imposed in late March to slow down the spread of coronavirus may not have been as effective in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities because of the "one-size-fits-all approach", scientists have warned.
Academics at the University of Leicester found that COVID-19 cases continued to rise in BAME groups in certain parts of Leicester in the three weeks after the announcement was made, while rates in white groups "dropped off very sharply".
They said the findings, published recently in the journal EClinicalMedicine by The Lancet, raise "serious questions" on whether lockdown on its own is effective for a diverse population.
Dr Manish Pareek, an associate clinical professor in infectious diseases at the University of Leicester, said: "Obviously, lockdown has had a huge impact in reducing infection rates but the question is, is it enough for certain parts of the country?
"Lockdown as a whole is quite a blunt tool... perhaps what we should be thinking about is a more nuanced approach which allows people to work with local solutions."
7.23am update: Global death toll figures
More than 14.08 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally and 595,459 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
7.15am update: Australia's parliament suspended
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday delayed the opening of parliament for several weeks as the new coronavirus continued spreading through the country's two most populous states.
Mr Morrison asked the speaker of the parliament to cancel a two-week session due to start on August 4, over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The request was seen as a formality as the speaker is a member of Morrison's Liberal Party and the opposition Labor Party accepted the call.
MPs are to meet at the next planned session on August 24.
Boris Johnson will reportedly offer ex-cricketer Sir Ian Botham a peerage as he marks his first year in Downing Street by rewarding Brexit loyalists.
Sir Ian, known affectionately as Beefy, is among 30 new peers who will be announced later this month, according to The Times.
He is considered to be one of England's greatest cricketers with 5,200 test runs and 383 wickets. Sir Ian also publicly supported the Brexit campaign and appeared alongside Mr Johnson before the referendum.
The 64-year-old played the question of Britain's departure from the EU with a straight bat, saying "enough's enough".
Image:Sir Ian, pictured here in 1981, is considered to be one of Britain's best ever cricketers
He appeared at a County Durham event with Mr Johnson and said: "I have been lucky enough to grow up in a wonderful country, a country that has always been able to look after itself."
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But he felt power has been "eroded by Brussels", adding: "I think, hang on, enough's enough."
Sir Ian said if the EU was inviting the UK to join afresh, we would "give it a very wide berth".
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The former cricketer is to be offered a peerage, and therefore made a lord, as a reward for his support for Brexit, The Times reports.
Image:Sir Ian Botham appeared alongside Boris Johnson before the EU referendum
The list of peerages is also said to include four ex-Labour MPs, including Frank Field and Gisela Stuart, who both supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum.
There will also be peerages for Ian Austin and John Woodcock, who backed Remain but supported Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and urged Labour voters not to support Jeremy Corbyn, the broadsheet has said.
It has also been reported Mr Johnson will seek to heal the divisions in the Conservative Party with peerages for Ken Clarke, Philip Hammond and Ed Vaizey.
All three had the Tory whip withdrawn after seeking to block his efforts to reach an agreement with Brussels.
There was no immediate comment from Downing Street.
Councils across England have been given fresh powers to shut down shops and cancel events in a move aimed at preventing local lockdowns.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that local authorities would be given stronger controls in time for the weekend, as he set out new details for returning the country to normality following the coronavirus outbreak.
James Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA) which represents council leaders, said he was hopeful the new measures would prevent local lockdowns, like that seen in Leicester, being required in future.
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The prime minister said at a Downing Street press briefing on Friday: "From tomorrow, local authorities will have new powers in their areas.
"They will be able to close specific premises, shut public outdoor spaces and cancel events.
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"These powers will enable local authorities to act more quickly in response to outbreaks where speed is paramount."
Ministers will also be given extra powers, to be laid out in more detail next week, enabling them to close factories and sectors of the economy in certain regions.
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It will also enable them to reintroduce bespoke stay-at-home orders.
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Mr Jamieson said: "Locally-led responses have proven to be the best way to tackle significant outbreaks, which this framework rightly emphasises.
"Councils know their local communities best and know how to address each unique outbreak.
"Greater powers for councils to take swift and effective action to address local outbreaks will hopefully help avoid the need for more stringent measures to be imposed locally."
He added that the use of enforcement powers "should be an option of last resort" and called for more "granular-level data" to be made available to councils to allow them to be "better able to act in real time to increases in infection rates".
Partial lifting of Leicester lockdown
The move comes amid a row about the way ministers have imposed a lockdown on Leicester and parts of the surrounding region.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a partial easing of the prolonged lockdown measures in the city on Thursday, but said COVID-19 rates remained too high there to allow pubs and restaurants to reopen.
Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has since accused the government of penalising businesses and residents in a city that predominantly votes Labour.
Areas outside of Leicester City and the borough of Oadby and Wigston will align with national lockdown rules in England from Saturday.
It means non-essential shops, bars, restaurants and hairdressers not in the continuing protected zone will be permitted to open from 18 July.
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Schools and childcare settings outside the protected area will also be able to open from the same date, in line with national restrictions.
Non-essential shops and schools in Leicester City and the borough of Oadby and Wigston will be allowed to open from 24 July, but bars, restaurants and hairdressers will stay closed, with a review due to take place by 1 August .
Leicester's rate of new coronavirus cases per 100,000 population dropped from 126.1 in the seven days to 7 July to 92.9 in the seven days to 14 July, according to data published on Friday.
Leading scientists warned the prime minister may struggle to deliver his vision of a "significant return to normality" in time for Christmas.
Sir Mark Walport, a former chief scientific adviser, said that it could prove difficult to achieve with respiratory illnesses tending to flourish in the colder weather.
He told BBC Two's Newsnight: "It is going to be difficult. We know that winter is when respiratory viruses thrive so it is going to be tough."
The government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, who had previously warned against easing the work-from-home guidance, told the committee that the winter would be a "very complex time" with people going down with other illnesses which were not COVID-19.
The prime minister said during the briefing it will be up to employers in England to discuss with workers whether it is safe to return from 1 August.
Most remaining leisure centres will reopen from that date and indoor performances with live audiences can resume if pilots are successful, while trials will begin for sports stadiums to reopen from October.
Mr Johnson, who also immediately scrapped the advice to avoid public transport, said Sir Patrick and Professor Whitty had taken part in a Cabinet discussion before the relaxation was announced.
However he said that ultimately "decisions are taken by the elected politicians".
