https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66790189
A 45-year-old man has been interviewed under caution by the Met Police after a video was circulated of a woman being restrained by a male shopkeeper.
Hundreds of people gathered to protest outside Peckham Hair and Cosmetics, in Rye Lane, on Tuesday where the woman had been accused of theft.
Chants of "you touch one, you touch all" were heard and signs held saying "keep your hands off black women".
The shopkeeper told the BBC the footage had been viewed "out of context".
He said the footage on social media was "cropped" and did not show the whole incident in full. The shop remains closed and shuttered.
A 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault on Tuesday and later released on bail.
People in Peckham were asked to remain calm after the video was circulated on social media.
The footage, which has been viewed more than a million times, appears to show a black woman inside the shop being grabbed by a much larger Asian man on Monday.
The woman struggled and hit the man with a shopping basket, which broke.
The man then held her by her arms and neck.
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Speaking to the BBC after Monday's incident but before Tuesday afternoon's protest, the shopkeeper said the woman had become aggressive when she was refused a refund on products she had previously bought at the store.
"We do not give refunds, we exchange items or give a credit note. So she grabbed some stuff [three packs of hair with a total value of £24] from the shelf and tried to leave. She was leaving and I was stopping her.
"I was stopping her. She slapped me in the face and grabbed a shopping basket and hit me on the head. I don't know when my hand goes around her neck. I was keeping her neutralised. I did not hit her.
"The video was cropped. People are acting at the half truth".
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Det Ch Supt Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Southwark, said: "I would like to thank local people for their patience as we work to establish the full circumstances around the allegations made.
"We continue to examine various clips of footage that depict small sections of the wider incident and are working to establish what offences were committed and by whom.
"My officers will be patrolling Rye Lane today to provide reassurance to the community."
He added: "I know that this incident will cause concern and I urge anyone who is worried to speak with their local policing team or with officers on patrol."
Harriet Harman, Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, said she had asked for an "urgent report" from police.
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All right.
So an aggressive woman tries to steal a product from a local store and is aggressively restrained.
This leads to protests about how 'black women' in particular shouldn't be treated like this.
I'm struggling to sympathise with the 'victim' here, given the immediate victim is the store owner/store of an attempted theft.
I can understand the argument "but they wouldn't have restrained a large aggressive male", but I don't see this as "dangerous" to small black women
if they don't steal.
I can also understand the argument "but this could happen to another woman who was wrongly thought to be stealing", and maybe that should get protests, but this particular incident...
... seems to me people are searching for an opportunity to play the victim card (oh help I'm a small woman) and find outrage about nothing.
Someone sane explain to me why this is protest-worthy outside of the arguments I just made?
