Kinda what I was thinking as well. I don't get what the end game here was either in terms of the determination to get a conviction at all costs. What does it achieve other than more distrust between that kind of young football supporter and police?
Again, I appreciate you can't be going about chucking fireworks of flairs around intimidating average public person but if it's a bit of smoke, let it go.
Just don't get what the police really gain from that conviction by targeting him alone? Making an example of him Is not a deterrent.