Greater Manchester Police brutality

Just to be clear, videos are not to be accepted as they might be edited or misleading, unverified claims of parties involved to be taken as gospel

To be fair, the “bastard” defence is a pretty common one that is often true - i.e. I don’t discriminate, I treat everyone like shit.

You do understand that racist people don't just target Muslims and ignore other people.

Just like men who commit domestic violence don't just attack women.

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Well if he beats up everyone he's not singling out Muslims is he .

That's as daft as saying the Muslim attacked a woman police officer because he has no respect for women .... oh hold on

I think this is absolutely appalling, regardless of the events that led up to it.

If you stamp on a prone person's head you don't know right from wrong, regardless of the situation.

That's an interesting twist on words.

So if a policeman beats up someone because he is Muslim, that does not mean he is racist because the police also beat other people up?

It doesn’t look good from the video, to put it mildly, but there’s an independent investigation process, so let that take it’s course.

Are you thick? If someone broke your nose then lay on the floor would you consider him no threat to anyone? You either want police to manage violent criminals by speaking their own language or nothing, scum like that don't respond to anything else.

almost 100% irrelevant.

The guy was incapacitated and no threat to anyone, the officer stuck his boot in just to cause hurt. He’s a disgrace

I agree, the wanker on the floor is big enough and strong enough to break a woman's nose he will be fine. Good on the police.

I deliberately chose the term 'similar'. How is that difficult to understand? I've seen the police behaving in a similar manner, appearing to punish through excessive force whilst I was attending football games. You are, of course, entitled to maintain the belief that the police only use force against people with an ethnic minority background, if you want.

I will be happy to see the bloke who hit the copper done for assault.

I'm not happy with dishing out revenge beating by people that uphold the law because it's, you know, illegal. Like breaking someone's nose is

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.

I might, but I'm not a copper

We left that style of policing a long time ago

If someone had seriously assaulted your family member, would you not want to hit them a bit? Not just subdue but "give them a taste of their own medicine".

My only issue would be if the person being restrained hadn't been violent or if he had MH issue so that he wasn't legally responsible or in control for his violent actions.

Just go on twitter, there's more videos. There's a good few seconds preface to the guardian video. The bloke is subdued on the floor actively being tasered and the copper kicks, then stamps, on his head.

There was a fight prior to that video that seemed very much over, and this much and stamp seem entirely spiteful

I will have a firm opinion either way once a fuller video is available. On its own, it looks awful. Adding in the broken nose and hospitalisation brings it back a bit, who knows what more is to come? If a policeman wanted to search me and had cause, I wouldn't resist.

You've seen police kick peoples heads in on the ground at football game?

It really isn't helpful to point to racism with these types of things. I've seen similar at football games which had an overwhelmingly white, male crowd.

In my life, I've transited through many airports and never once been involved in a confrontation with the police. I therefore don't believe a few second clip, edited for the purposes of being posted online is a reliable source for the full story of what's happened here.

Policing in the UK is awful. So is crime.

If the guy on the floor has punched and broken a woman's nose, then I'm not going to spare him any pity over the returned favour.

Do you have a link to this other video?

What's the justification for the assault on the second man who was sitting with his hands on his head. They told him to get down on the floor, which he started doing while keeping his hands on his head. He was then kicked by a different officer and punched repeatedly by a third.

And a few moments later the older woman is walking away and a female officer shoves her hard in the back.

All those officers were out of control.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Looks like our friend made the mistake of thinking the police were all about skipping around with rainbow flags - turns out some of them won't stand for any nonsense.