The incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. on May 21 and was captured on video, showing the officers exchanging blows and shoves. One of them, visibly agitated, used her radio to request the presence of a supervisor, warning that “I need a supervisor here… immediately before I beat this girl up.”
Unlikely that he was that focused on the upper class. The author was the headmaster of a boy’s C of E grammar school. Based on his other work, I’d say he had a pessimistic view of human nature in general.