Police are investigating video footage showing England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty apparently being accosted by two men in a London park. It is the third time that footage of Whitty apparently being harassed has surfaced on social media, prompting questions over whether he should be assigned personal protection. The footage shows two men jeering as they grab hold of Whitty, who appears to struggle to free himself. At one point one of them can be heard saying, “One photo please?” With a line of police vans visible in the background, a voice is heard saying “leave the gentleman alone” before the clip ends. Whitty became a household name during the early period of the pandemic when he regularly appeared alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving televised briefings and fielding questions on the scientific advice behind the UK government’s pandemic response. The Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Twitter: …