Euphemism of the Year

This should win some sort of award for spin or euphemisms:

A baton may have been used to assist the man to the ground and with only one strike used, Mr Rutherford said.

Yes batons are well known for how they assist people to the ground.  Just in case you can’t make it all the way down there by yourself, then hey let a baton assist you.

Next we will read how the Police may have used a gun to assist a man in slowing down.

For the record I am not casting a view on whether the Police should have used a baton or not.  Just criticising the ridicolous way they described it as assisting him.