Plebgate: A Twitter mugging for cops at centre of the scandal Keith Vaz quizzed the officers with particular panache, probing for whether there was the "slightest doubt between what you said in the meeting and what was said in the media?" Sergeant Chris Jones stutteringly replied that the officers wished to apologise to the public for going to the press, however they did not feel they needed to apologise to Mitchell. This was despite Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair of the IPCC, saying "it is not a case for misconduct, it is a case of gross misconduct." The officers were accused of deliberately bringing down "a senior member of the government" because of the government austerity measures. They were also accused of ending the meeting "in time for the 6 o'clock news." #Plebgate was trending on Twitter for most of the afternoon with little sympathy being shown for the police officers: Others continued to show anger towards the government and the IPCC: