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Greater Manchester Police brutality

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Gummybear23 · 24/07/2024 22:22

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/24/armed-police-officer-filmed-kicking-man-in-face-at-manchester-airport

Sickening behaviour. Surely tasering the man is enough.
He is on the floor tasered so you give him some kickings to the head?

Hope this is properly investigated.
Greater Manchester Police have an awful reputation.

Manchester airport: officer removed from frontline duty after arrest video goes viral

Armed police officer seen kicking suspect in footage Greater Manchester police called ‘truly shocking’

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/24/armed-police-officer-filmed-kicking-man-in-face-at-manchester-airport

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LadyJaneEarlGreyTea · 26/07/2024 09:57

what the officer may have done to deserve the assault

What do you think justifies a man breaking a woman’s nose?
Does the campaign against VAWG not count if that woman is a police officer?

IClaudine · 26/07/2024 09:52

WowReallysh · 26/07/2024 09:43

No because she had been violently attacked by a thug who got his comeuppance

By acting totally unprofessionally and giving the thug his "comeuppance", that police officer has caused a massive amount of trouble that could now easily overspill.

Even if you don't care about the brutal kicking of a "thug", you should care about and recognise the fact that bad policing can have a disastrous wider effect.

Shakeoffyourchains · 26/07/2024 09:50

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:18

He’s been suspended. Likely will end up being fired. What more do you suggest? Death by stoning?

How about whatever you'd be calling for if the roles were reversed and we had a video of the man in blue kicking and stamping on a prone police officer?

WickedSerious · 26/07/2024 09:49

Scammersarescum · 25/07/2024 08:45

Without seeing the level of violence and disorder prior to this clip there is no way of judging.

That said one of the perpetrators has smacked a female officer is the face so hard she sustained a broken nose.

In the clip the perpetrators were very clearly resisting. It's an airport, a sensitive area that needs to be tightly controlled. How were the police to know whether this was a distraction from a terrorist incident. They don't. They needed to being the situation under control ASAP.

Now the middle class world of mumsnet may not like it, but these police will deal with scum, day in day out throughout their careers. Thieves, rapists, child abusers, murders, wife beaters. And they will know, sometimes the only way to bring a situation under control quickly is to kick someone in the head to keep them down on the floor.

If that offends you, don't join the police. But don't try and stir up hatred of the police using a tiny clip of what was clearly a much longer incident.

What a load of arse juice.

Mayorq · 26/07/2024 09:48

WowReallysh · 26/07/2024 09:43

No because she had been violently attacked by a thug who got his comeuppance

I'll wait until some evidence of this allegation is actually available until I take a position on its veracity. Never know what went on or what the officer may have done to deserve the assault.

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 26/07/2024 09:48

@WowReallysh any confirmation he was the one that broke the female police officer 's nose? I haven't seen any yet, but many posters seem to post as fact that he was personally (and sometimes singularly responsible ) for the assaults against the police officers.

Shakeoffyourchains · 26/07/2024 09:46

The police response to this has flavours of their response to when they killed (or murdered) Sheku Bayoh.

They claimed he'd assaulted a female officer too (stamped on her) and maintained that line right the way through the inquiries until a video emerged showing their version of events didn't happen.

It's amazing how quickly people make excuses for violent thugs just because they've got a badge and a uniform.

WowReallysh · 26/07/2024 09:43

Mayorq · 26/07/2024 09:33

I don't think any of the police beat up their colleague

No because she had been violently attacked by a thug who got his comeuppance

Æthelred · 26/07/2024 09:42

It's nice to see that the aggrieved party have got themselves a reputable, level headed lawyer who steers well clear of bandwagons.

Nice and local for them too - Birmingham is very near Rochdale.

"Family lawyer claims police officer kicking teenager in the head at Manchester airport was 'an attempted assassination' - after police station was pelted with eggs and hundreds marched through city in second night of protests"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13674959/Manchester-Airport-family-lawyer-protests-police.html?ito=native_share_article-top

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Lawyer claims Manchester police incident was 'attempted assassination'

Family solicitor Akhmed Yakoob spoke out after hundreds of protesters blocked traffic and held up placards in Manchester following footage of an officer kicking a teenager in the head 'like a football'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13674959/Manchester-Airport-family-lawyer-protests-police.html?ito=native_share_article-top

Threeweeksold · 26/07/2024 09:41

Waltdisnerd · 25/07/2024 08:58

Did you see the recent murder of Sonya Massey in America?
Very glad our police don't carry guns but this is still unacceptable.

He was carrying a gun. He was an armed officer.

OneTC · 26/07/2024 09:37

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:18

He’s been suspended. Likely will end up being fired. What more do you suggest? Death by stoning?

Attempted murder 👌

IClaudine · 26/07/2024 09:34

ItsMeNotTheProblem · 26/07/2024 09:16

These cases have been investigated by Dame Vera Baird. The report was published on 18th July.

A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Sky News Link

HTH.

Edited

I didn't know this. So, the GMP are rotten to the core.

Mayorq · 26/07/2024 09:33

WowReallysh · 26/07/2024 09:30

People should be supporting the police that beat up a violent thug.

I don't think any of the police beat up their colleague

WowReallysh · 26/07/2024 09:30

Bex5490 · 26/07/2024 08:40

You really think so? When now he’s become the victim and got a whole city of people on his side condemning the police?

I doubt it.

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People should be supporting the police that beat up a violent thug.

ItsMeNotTheProblem · 26/07/2024 09:24

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:21

And? Does that apply to every allegation? Do we put trust in criminals always telling the truth? As I said, needs investigating for the facts in this situation, not simply accepting someone’s narrative. May be telling the truth, might not be. It’s a dangerous road to go down if we accept what people say by default.

Don’t change the goal posts.

You implied that the women making complaints of strip searches that have been found to be unlawful were lying.

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:21

ItsMeNotTheProblem · 26/07/2024 09:16

These cases have been investigated by Dame Vera Baird. The report was published on 18th July.

A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Sky News Link

HTH.

Edited

And? Does that apply to every allegation? Do we put trust in criminals always telling the truth? As I said, needs investigating for the facts in this situation, not simply accepting someone’s narrative. May be telling the truth, might not be. It’s a dangerous road to go down if we accept what people say by default.

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:18

Gummybear23 · 26/07/2024 06:22

Been kicked in the head by armed officers is unacceptable in any situation.

How would you react if this was your family member.

Edited

He’s been suspended. Likely will end up being fired. What more do you suggest? Death by stoning?

ItsMeNotTheProblem · 26/07/2024 09:16

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:10

And I wouldn’t put much confidence in the womens statements about strip searched until the full facts are available. People in these situations often lie or exaggerate the issue to fit their own agendas.

These cases have been investigated by Dame Vera Baird. The report was published on 18th July.

A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Sky News Link

HTH.

TinkerTiger · 26/07/2024 09:14

hattie43 · 25/07/2024 15:06

It's very interesting that all of the rhetoric is around the police acting tough and none saved for the criminal who broke a policewoman's nose and put others in hospital . If they weren't brawling this event would not have happened.

It's scary that people don't understand the difference between criminals being criminals and law enforcers behaving in the same way.

Why stop there? Why follow the legal processes with court and sentencing and prison? Why not just kill him on the spot? The police in America already do!

Æthelred · 26/07/2024 09:14

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 26/07/2024 09:04

@Æthelred have you watched the video? The man is still ,face down on the floor(after being tasered). He is not moving. He doesn't move even after the first kick, only after the second one. There are no wriggly hands and the officer is perfectly safe and out of range even if there were. No where in police training it says to kick suspects in the head in order to safely cuff them. Come on.

I have seen some footage but not all the footage. Nobody has seen all the footage yet - by "all the footage" I mean all the material from the dozens of CCTV cameras, police body cameras and footage from bystanders. As I alluded in my first post, if this had happened in town it would be offensive. On this occasion all my sympathy is with the police.

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:10

Bex5490 · 26/07/2024 08:44

I mean regardless of what led up to it…it doesn’t look good.

Plus, the incidents described by those women about being strip searched by GMB are awful. And they definitely didn’t deserve that type of treatment.

And I wouldn’t put much confidence in the womens statements about strip searched until the full facts are available. People in these situations often lie or exaggerate the issue to fit their own agendas.

eggplant16 · 26/07/2024 09:09

twentysomethingendssoon · 25/07/2024 21:20

@eggplant16
Are you drunk?

You literally quoted me and accused me of condoning the behaviour of the officer and now you have gone off on some weird tangent

See below

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Not condoning what's happened and we won't know what has gone on unless they do an independent review but I do I wonder how much trauma that police officer has been through to react like that

So you are condoning it then?

In answer to your question No

You are coming close to condoning by saying we don't know how much trauma had been suffered. Thats not relevant.

Please stop telling me to stop commenting,that I'm silly, that I'm drunk and I need to F off.

Livelovebehappy · 26/07/2024 09:08

Bex5490 · 26/07/2024 08:40

You really think so? When now he’s become the victim and got a whole city of people on his side condemning the police?

I doubt it.

Edited

Slight exaggeration there. Not a whole city. Just a large unruly mob who don’t respect law and order, and tbh would probably use any excuse to try to challenge the police. Most of those there probably don’t even know what’s happened and just turn up as part of the rent a mob crew.

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 26/07/2024 09:04

@Æthelred have you watched the video? The man is still ,face down on the floor(after being tasered). He is not moving. He doesn't move even after the first kick, only after the second one. There are no wriggly hands and the officer is perfectly safe and out of range even if there were. No where in police training it says to kick suspects in the head in order to safely cuff them. Come on.

ItsMeNotTheProblem · 26/07/2024 09:04

Æthelred · 26/07/2024 08:57

Their arms were wriggling - he could have been reaching for anything - better safe than sorry in an airport environment. He wasn't compliant and he was still potentially a threat.

There is absolutely no evidence that this man was reaching for anything. This is the same rhetoric that US police have been using for years and it’s bullshit.

If the subdued man really wanted to reach for anything then the police officer kneeling on him bringing weapons closer certainly didn’t negate any risk did it?

This highly trained police officer lost control, stop excusing that.

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