Greater Manchester Police brutality

The full video likely has brought support for the officers

Just seeing the sheer violence they face and still turning up so others are safe

Fake news. That photo has nothing to do with the airport incident.

Mock all you like, sweetheart.

Every single incident of police behaving unlawfully whittles away at public confidence in the insitution as a whole, which is already very low.

Have you run into many non Muslim women with whom you have had the same conversation?

You do know Muslim women move amongst us. They are just going about their business, working, busy and so on. How ridiculous some of the assumptions are.

You can die from being tasered - rare but people have.

If you had some guy running towards you with a machete and an officer about to taser them, would you ask the officer to kindly stop just in case?

Police need to use force. It will, regrettably and on occasions result in someones death.

Starting pay £28k?

Working nights and weekends?

Chance of getting your head kicked in and if you strike back, a whole Internet of armchair experts dissect your every move, second by second in slo-mo and pass judgement?

Chance of going to prison?

It's a no from me.

I wouldn’t even say that the officer acted abhorrently, given the context of the savage attacks on him and his colleagues which preceded his response. It all happened so fast.

It is a police protocol. I listened to a police interview today and the officer said that if a suspect is resisting to put their arms behind their back (like in the video - the guy just lays there with arms by his side and doesn’t put them behind his back) this, as per protocol, threatens a police officer as the suspect can easily reach for the officer’s gun.

You can only question if it is acceptable use of power if you have familiarised yourself with protocols and, most importantly, why these protocols exist.

another protocol is to shoot anyone on the spot if your fellow police officer’s weapon has been taken by non authorised personnel. And yes, these protocols keep us all safe. Questioning these protocols makes us all vulnerable.

Yes how very horrid for the police to be undermining themselves when faced with a brutal assault. Please will someone book them onto the undermining course stat.

Fair point.

So I'll start by saying that the officer had lost control of his emotions and his reaction was disgusting and should be duly punished ....... however! Have we all seen the footage of what transpired before the clip we all saw of him kicking the guy on the floor? The situation was totally out of control , the two guys went from zero to 100 instantly , the level of their aggression was appalling. Some of you explain to me how you control a situation like that without physical force ? I will reiterate that I think the officers actions were totally wrong but can we at least acknowledge that the situation leading up to the assault by him was explosive and happened in a matter of seconds. Police officers do an incredibly difficult job one that I wouldn't want to do and whilst the officer acted abhorrently shall we look at the behaviour of the two men who were the catalyst for the whole episode ?

I think the now released CCTV video of proceeding events provides a lot of context for what happened.

I don't believe what the officer did at that point was necessary and could have been handled better. But it is very easy to say that as someone watching all the videos post events. The officer is still just human dealing with what was now clearly a very volatile situation.

His actions were far from ideal but I don't think they were racist.

The police undermine themselves every time they act unlawfully.

Really? How many people do you think would have heard of Geoege Floyd if it had not been a white cop who killed him.?

I think it’s easy to muse from the safety of mn posts rather than know what it’s like to face the heavy violence officers had just faced

The judicial system was not there, those officers were on their own, fighting for their lives, they were all injured. I thank them for their service.

Do you believe the judicial system (that you clearly have great faith in) delivers justice for women?

The judicial system won’t be much use if a weapon had been taken and fired by someone prepared to grapple with armed officers though would it.

No we wouldn’t all be at risk, because we don’t attack police officers who are doing their jobs. Anyone who physically attacks an armed police officer in an airport is just asking for whatever comes their way.

But that's simply not true.

If you were outraged about innocents being murdered you wouldn't be questioning the police's actions when confronted with a violent attacker who could have easily murdered one of those police officers had they landed on their heads after he punched them.

You're also doing a disservice to the hundreds of innocents killed each year by thugs like the one in the video ,by undermining the people paid to protect us for no good reason.