fair play to him. attacks on homeless people is a dirty hidden secret of this country - visit Crisis and see if you can donate a few quid
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former minister David Davis has confirmed he intervened to stop an attack on a rough sleeper near Parliament on Tuesday evening.
The veteran Tory MP said he stepped in when he saw two men "kicking seven bells" out of another man on the floor.
Asked if he was scared during the scuffle, Mr Davis said his main concern had been "getting him out of risk" and that the incident was over within a minute.
Mr Davis has been an MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Haltemprice and Howden since 1987 and during his parliamentary career has served as a whip and Foreign Office minister.
Asked why he had got involved, Mr Davis told the BBC that 30 years ago there had been an incident on a South London common where someone "got kicked in the head and died".
A recent report by Policy Exchange claimed that the area around Parliament had "declined into a degree of squalor and disorder".
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Good on him.
Intervening is scary, because it is genuinely risky, and though the article mentions he has training, that was a long time ago.
Credit where it's due, he done a good thing.