Greater Manchester Police brutality

The poor family are traumatised by the actions of the police, not those two lovely charity workers who clearly demonstrated extreme violence in the first place. The actions of the officer in that last moment were still wrong, but I understand why it happened.

I wouldn't attack the police either.
Clearly very angry men and completely stupid to think they can get away with it.

But - it does look like after this, the 2 men involved were either on the ground or on the bench with their hands behind their head.

At that point, things should have been handled differently. The police have the weapons, the tasers and at that point, they should not have needed to use the physical force that they did.

I get that the "blood" might have been up after what had just happened.

Imagine the horror that could have unfolded if they had of got old of the firearms. That lady keep wandering in and out is very odd wonder if she has dementia.

Tbh I wouldn’t believe anything those two said, I also read they claimed that a police officer slapped their mum. Also read that they got into a fight because someone wanted to search their mum and they said she couldn’t be searched because she’s muslim.I don’t know, I mean it’s all bollocks isn’t it. Those two are thugs and should be in prison not sitting on their sofa making sad faces.

It’s classic DARVO isn’t it.

Full CCTV out there and the armchair officers are still clinging on telling everyone how it should be done!

I think I read somewhere there had previously been an altercation at baggage reclaim with another passenger. It may have been because they considered him dangerous before they got anywhere near him. Plus I can’t hear the video, they could have called out a warning or something beforehand.

I will tell you what I would do if someone came up behind me and I realised it was a police officer. I’d go “wtf you doing”. What I wouldn’t do is start punching people who are clearly police.

If you are an armed police officer, do you think the intial approach to the suspect should have been different?

It looks like they came from behind and put him in a headlock very quickly.

I understand you think the Police officer was wrong. But looking at the whole scenario.

You're a firearms cops going to arrest someone in an airport. You are met by extreme violence, you manage to Taser one of them and then are attacked from behind in a chokehold. You have a gun on you.

You get up and see the bloke appear to lift up from the floor. It's a confusing chaotic situation. I can understand why he's kicked him thinking "You are not in any circumstances getting to your feet".

You also have other injured cops, and cops with firearms who had/were being assaulted.

Let's face it, they were lucky they weren't shot, fighting with cops with firearms like that.

Always was going to be
the majority of these things look bad seen in a small clip without wider context

When the thug hospitalised the 1st officer it wasn't about skin colour.
When the thug hospitalised the 2nd officer it wasn't about skin colour.
When the thug broke the nose of the female officer it wasn't about skin colour.
The moment the 4th officer's boot connected with the thug's head it was all about skin colour.

Yeah I think thats why you get a very heavy response from an armed police officer. There was that thing about how many police officers in the US are shot by their own firearms.

It’s actually pretty scary to be put in that situation. I have zero sympathy for those two pillocks but still, police must remain in control. I do hope they face charges for assaulting police officers though.

If you are a firearms officer, surely the way you approach people should change, given you are carrying weapons.

It looks like the officers came from behind to the man who was paying and within a few seconds, he was in a headlock and the fight broke out.

I would have thought that if you had a weapon that could be taken off you if the person resisted arrest would alter the way you approach someone - just in case they resisted.

They had tasers. I guess they had pistols. It was a crowded environment.

I am not a police officer - but it looked like the way they initially approached the person was not the best way. Especially if the police officers were armed

It was afterwards, there were a bunch of people outside the police station calling for the police officer to be arrested and the “victims” set free.

If they'd have got their hands on a weapon they'd have used it they were like out of control animals, deserved everything they got. Although the PC should've known it would all be on cctv and maybe stuck to a repeat taser instead.

Firearms officers are supposed to be selected on the basis of their ability to remain calm in tense situations. The fact of this violent attack on a person who posed no immediate threat goes beyond questions of the criminal culpability of the officer involved (though this needs to be fully followed up), it raises urgent questions about the suitability of the selection process.

I can’t get over how many glossed over the fact that he punched a woman (looks like two women actually) in the face. When I heard that I thought, “yup that guy is going to turn out to be an utter prick generally”.

There doesn't seem to be a baying mob in that video
Mostly it's people queuing to pay for parking.

A link to the footage.

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1928850/manchester-airport-police-incident-new-video-latest

It looks like he has been tasered.
The whole incident just seems strange.
The police walk up to the person and grab him. They seem to put him in a headlock very quickly.
Then a fight breaks out very quickly.
The person seems to be tasered.
Then the police officer kicks him in the head.

The footage is horrific. How the arseholes can go on TV waah'ing about what happened, just disgusting. If the one in the fetching sky blue outfit hadn't been tasered he was not going to stop. Our police really do have to put up with some crap.

I just watched it, tbh I don’t blame anyone for wanting to boot either of them in the head after that. Doesn’t mean it’s ok for a police officer to lose control and do that, the police should still be looking at that officer.

But by god did those two deserve it. They are clearly extremely violent, I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t the first time they’ve been involved in a violent altercation.

I still think the police officer was wrong but "baying mob" sums it up really

It was an uncomfortable watch all round. The threats to the police were palpable

The mob butting in and distracting and the "parent of an undetermined age" wandering around getting in the police's faces

And there is NO excuse for the demos and meetings with "community leaders"
And the ambulance chasing lawyer rubbing his hands at the £ signs

Agree but to use skin colour as a fucking excuse! Nope!

What does the colour of the skin have to do with the footage I’ve just witnessed, the WHOLE footage! Skin colour has NOTHING to do with two aggressive people totally out of control!

There wasn’t just ONE out of control though, the pair of them obviously have anger issues!

I’m still holding the view that police are not placed to dish out punishment.

It’s still not appropriate to stamp on the head of a man in the prone position, whatever the circumstances IMO.