Greater Manchester Police brutality

But from what it looks like in the video at this point the guy was lying on the floor face down completely subdued, this was therefore entirely unnecessary behaviour at this Point!

I am not disputing that this guy had done wrong but is what we expect of our police force?

Listen, I understand the heightened emotion and I've said above I can see how this happened but it's not acceptable to use that kind of behaviour on a suspect that's already down on the ground with their hands by their side. Quite clearly they didn't reach or move in the time he did that.

There is another video showing when the violence - yes, violence - began and the police 100% started. They sprayed a man in the face whilst he was recording them and the men all had their hands up, no one was raising a finger at the police. The elderly woman was also hit in the face by police.

It is sickening.

hmm @Gummybear23 it’s fine to watch a 12 second clip and make judgements, but did you also read this:

”During our response, three officers were assaulted. One female officer suffered a broken nose and the other officers were forced to the ground and suffered injuries which required hospital treatment.”

Do you know what it takes to subdue an unruly suspect who has attacked multiple officers and hospitalised one?

Perhaps some of the keyboard protesters who weirdly open a thread to get everyone piling in (excuse the allusion) could ask themselves what preceded this footage, and what does it take to subdue someone who has been that violent and belligerent in the lead up?

It's completely unacceptable behaviour from a police officer and he absolutely should be sanctioned. I can see how and why he's reacted that way if what has been reported is accurate (assaulting 3 female officers and breaking one of their noses) but you cannot let emotion take over and lose control as a police officer as you are supposed to uphold the law.

From the footage I’ve seen, he was on the floor and was holding his hands up and they kicked him in the face.

They are not meant to act with unreasonable force which they did from what I can see