LONDON Dozens of leading UK legal scholars called Tuesday for an independent inquiry into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of a pro-Palestine protest over the weekend in London. The lawyers have also demanded that charges against Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), and others arrested during the demonstration be dropped. In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, they described the policing of the protest as “a disproportionate, unwarranted and dangerous assault