Manchester Airport Incident

This. 100%

The policeman obviously shouldn’t have done this, apart from the clear moral issues he must have known someone would be filming. But I don’t give a shit about the brothers who started it, and broke a woman’s nose, with their compo faces.
I hope that kick in the face felt as least as painful as her broken nose.

As far as I understand it these are two totally different videos, the first was by some kind of bystander the one yesterday (is that the one the OP means) is from CCTV which presumably has to go through some kind of procedure before it can be made public.

Thought they were in for a nice bit of comp didn’t they. Only bit of free stuff that guys going to get is a nice stay at his majesties pleasure

The police officer lost his temper and isn't fit to serve. Sadly this is the latest in a long line of male police officers behaving in a disgusting way.

That said, I wish the police (and teachers and medics and those in the front line in other jobs where they have to put up with shit) were paid vastly more. There's a reason there's a massive shortage in these professions. What we need is for the crap ones to be weeded out, so that we have professional organisations which run properly and where those who serve are properly rewarded

This. He lost self control and should face consequences for that, but, having seen the new footage, I can understand why he lashed out.

Can you imagine if these men had managed to seize the guns?

They didn't 'manage' and they didn't try either.

I saw the new footage. I'm not surprised by it. We already knew the man had been aggressive, broke someone's nose. Nothing justifies the man's aggressive behaviour but I'd like to see what happened before - I'd heard something about someone either pushing his mother or ramming a trolley in to her. Again, this doesn't justify what he did but we're still not seeing the full picture.
Regarding the policeman's actions, I'm torn. On the one hand he's only human, had just been attacked by an out of control man. I'm sure the policeman had adrenaline surging through his body. On the other hand, he's a professional, the man had been subdued. Absolutely no reason to stamp on his head. Police need to be held to higher standards than the violent people they deal with.

@iamtheblcksheep you're just being ridiculous now. Stamping on someone's head is much worse than a broken nose.

Absolutely this!

Of course the officer’s actions were still not justified. Nobody assumed they randomly picked members of the public to assault, obviously there was an issue beforehand.

Still doesn’t excuse a trained officer making a thuggish move that could paralyse, brain damage or kill an already restrained man.

100% this. You can clearly see his reaction wasn't thought out and premeditated.

I just read that the male officer was attacked so badly just before he kicked the other brother and was held in a chokehold from behind

He is thought to have momentarily have lost consciousness....he was armed, his weapon could have been seized and used

One female officer lost consciousness briefly too.....was she the second armed officer?

Can you imagine if these men had managed to seize the guns?

I think if the whole video had come out at once instead of the family releasing one that made them look like victims and then outright lying about what happened, the narrative people are pushing would be very different.

if you’ve put yourself in the position where the police are having to use extreme force to arrest and restrain you, I don’t much care what happens to you. Even if it means an officer booting you in the face. Don’t attack the police and you’ll be alright.

*He clearly doesn’t stamp on his head.

Why are you defending scum? How would you feel if your child was harmed doing their job. Two officers were injured.*

It's not clear to me.

Why are you saying that the police should get to decide whether people are scum or not at the scene and then kick them in the face and stamp on their heads?

After seeing the new footage, I think everyone should stop sticking their oar in and let an independent investigation take place.

In this video it looks like a guy paying for his parking is grabbed by two police officers and has his head dashed against the payment machine. His brothers come in swinging and it turns into a fight with the police subduing one guy with a taser, and then despite already being subdued, the one officer kicks him in the head. I still think the police were appalling here.

Why are you defending scum? How would you feel if your child was harmed doing their job. Two officers were injured.

Why are you asking people how they would feel if their child was harmed doing their job? What's that got to do with anything?

Are you saving'What if the man was Hitler!' for later?

Sounds like there is much more to learn of the lead up to the Incident

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/gmp-issue-appeal-witnesses-three-29625798

I really do blame the media for the protests. If the full video had been shown, very few people would have had an ounce of sympathy for the POS on the floor.

Once over they’d have been slung in a cell and pasted. The law is changing to be more trauma informed with offenders however when you see thugs behave like that you do sometimes wonder if the U.K. has gone too soft and woke.

Yeah you'll need Robocop for that, not an actual human being. Humans have emotions.

Wtf do people sympathise with violent scum or twats like the JSO girl who got jailed and can’t go to her brothers wedding. Boo bloody hoo. What is wrong with society.

The 2 men were thugs, they beat on the police officers clearly wanting to do damage.

However the police officer kicked one of them in the head after he'd been tasered and restrained on the floor. He can't do that.

I would probably not be able to hold back my temper in a similar situation, it's one of the many reasons I'm not a police officer. We need to be able to trust that the people keeping us same and upholding the law are able to retain their rationality and react appropriately in high pressure situations. This police officer didn't do that.