Manchester Airport Incident

Totally agree. Great post.

Oh if only that had been the outcome in this case.

No. There is still no excuse to stamp on a man's head when he is already down. I understand that tensions were high, and surprise, the blokes,were arseholes, but that doesn't excuse the over action by the policeman.

My thoughts entirely.

They need more punishment than a travel ban- they weren’t even passengers- they were at the airport to pick up their mother. They should be given a prison sentence and made to pay compensation to the officers they injured. If they are migrants they should be deported on release back to their country of nationality- although I suspect they are British citizens.

This is maybe what I’ve seen, the stamp looks aimed at the hand or the floor, it doesn’t look like contact with the head is made.

That doesn’t make the kick in the face okay, but it does make a difference to me.

What else do you want for them?

Bleeding hearts having a day off from justifying extreme violence and public disorder, whose raison d'etre is essentially to frame perpetrators as victims, would be a start.

Incidents involving police being looked upon on a case by case basis, with consideration given that police are just human beings risking serious injury and death in the line of duty, would also be sensible.

The fact that the men who seriously assaulted the police have both behaved, and been treated by the media and elected officials, as persecuted martyrs is entirely wrong.

*Imagine being on a plane with them!

I and family have flown Qatar Airways and never seen trouble on board 🤞
Nor on most flights actually.*

Maybe they are more relaxed when they aren't working. And they wouldn't have their guns of course on a flight.

If the two violent thugs hadn’t attacked the police officers they wouldn’t have been tasers or stamped on. The police officer wasn’t right but I have less than zero sympathy for those disgusting men.

Idk but I think they knew how extreme their reaction was based on the pummelling and violence they’d just experienced. Those thugs were unleashing brutality

The angle of the original footage appeared to show him stamp on the man's head but the new footage shows he stamped on the floor very close to his head.

The officer is carrying a gun.

It raises the stakes.

If that's taken off him, there's a risk of an absolute bloodbath. Must be a huge responsibility.

I have seen the video where his face isn't blurred out the other day on instagram from an observer. He clearly full on kicks him in the middle of his face and stomps on his head with full force.

Bbc blurred faces so it's harder to see.

I don't know what the offender did to be approached originally by the police. But the police are there to protect and serve. Not to dish out their own punishments

They may be only human but it is their job not to loose their cool but to calm the situation, make their arrest in the least harmful way possible and leave justice to the courts. Shocking behaviour.

The female police officer also seems to be waiving around and panicking abd doesn't know what to do or to control the situation either.

Imagine being on a plane with them!

I and family have flown Qatar Airways and never seen trouble on board 🤞
Nor on most flights actually.

Did the police know they were unarmed?

Exactly

I work in mh it happens it’s frightening your adrenaline kicks in but staff have to remain in control (we have had training but far less that this officer would have) you can not react with unnecessary violence

if they do then the line of work isn’t right for them

And?????

That gave someone with a supposed job of acting within the law, to lash out?

If he does this under pressure, it certainly is not the right profession for him. He acted no better than the perpetrators.

I disagree, OP. The officer did not apply/enforce the law correctly here.

Bail should be refused for people that violently attack police.
Police are our protection, how can they protect us when they are being knocked unconscious by repeated blows to the head?
What good are all the things you have mentioned when you are lying unconscious on he ground.
Bailing violent thugs that attack police is not protecting them or the public.

Unless you carry a gun and a taser that could be taken off you and used against you and other patients/colleagues then it's really not comparable is it?

Why would I take a career change? What are you on about?

In this case, the police officer also acted like a thug.

My point is people who take these jobs where they can yield an ounce of authority over people are sometimes not the right people to do these jobs.

Why would I change my career? I do not have the mindset to do a job where my role involves relishing power and control.

Yes we had a different outcome with solicitor and cyst news

The longer clip shows the brutal violence the officers faced, in many places that would be fatal

I’m absolutely fine with what the police officer did. In many other countries they’d have been shot dead for that nonsense in an airport. Fuck around and find out!

No it’s not justified whatever has happened beforehand. The man was on the ground and was not a danger by that point. The police aren’t allowed to just assault people no matter what they’ve done.

Do we know what caused the incident in the first place? I think we should be coming down hard on the two who I can see in videos attacking the police officers though. Long term travel bans for them definitely.

For me nothing can justify what he fid