



Jody McIntyre, a young British blogger and political activist who has cerebral palsy, asked readers of his blog on Tuesday to help identify a police officer who dragged him from his wheelchair during a protest in London this month.

Video of Mr. McIntyre being pulled from his wheelchair and across a road by the police officer (as bystanders swore and protested loudly) was posted on YouTube shortly after the episode. Mr. McIntyre then appeared on the BBC to explain what happened.

Last week, Matthew Taylor reported in The Guardian that London’s Metropolitan Police Service had started an investigation into the incident after the dark, grainy footage was posted on YouTube.

Mr. McIntyre told The Guardian that police officers had pulled him from his wheelchair twice during the protest.

He said in the first incident several officers lifted him from his chair and carried him 100 yards “for his own safety.” “This time I was in the middle of the street and I saw an officer from the earlier incident coming running over and tip the chair over and drag me from the middle of the road to the side of the road before he was restrained by colleagues,” he said.

On Tuesday, Mr. McIntyre posted two photographs of that officer on his blog, and asked any reader who might recognize the man to report him to the police. He also asked the 6,300 people who follow his Twitter feed to pass the images on.

In his account of the protest on his blog, Mr. McIntyre was unapologetic about his part in confronting the police at the protest, writing, “You don’t bring down governments by standing around and shuffling your feet.”

In a column for London’s Independent newspaper, he added:

There are those who say I shouldn’t be on the frontline of a protest, but I believe every single one of us has a duty to fight against those oppressing us. To those who believe I should just ‘take it,’ I have taken it but I still don’t believe being dragged out of your wheelchair is an acceptable consequence of attending a demonstration against rising tuition fees.

Mr. McIntyre recently posted this short film he made about his activism on his blog: