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Policeman kicks 15 year old girl in the stomach

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GreekTragedy · 01/10/2021 09:58

I couldn't see a thread about this so thought I'd start one.

I am completely shocked at this video.

This "officer" came out of nowhere and did a flying kick to a young girl!!

Now I can understand police getting a it violent in the heat of the moment but this? This is outright disgusting.

That officer should be charged.

What the fuck has happened to our police force??

www.aol.co.uk/news/cop-fly-kicks-15-old-123400054.html

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JasonMomoasgirlfriend · 01/10/2021 12:10

Omg why are you still going? I asked you to stop and you're still going.

JasonMomoasgirlfriend · 01/10/2021 12:10

@NewYearNewTwatName

Is there a way to block a poster?

aww bless you think you are on Twitter where you can block anyone with a different opinion to you, and live in a little perfect bubble.

thats so sweet Smile

I know 😇 so thoughtful
MrsRobbieHart · 01/10/2021 12:11

@JasonMomoasgirlfriend

Omg why are you still going? I asked you to stop and you're still going.
you’re surprised when I respond to your posts aimed directly at me? Weird.
FreakinFrankNFurter · 01/10/2021 12:11

Were the girls out of order, certainly. It's for the courts to decide how out of order and the appropriate punishment (which doesn't include fly kick to the stomach)

Would an officer arriving at the scene not have all the facts and have to make a quick decision, of course. Is that easy, no.

Is fly kicking a recognised police restraint technique? I think not

The officer needed her away from those on the ground quickly. I assume there are techniques for that. Why didn't he use one of those? Because he's a thug in a uniform

knittingaddict · 01/10/2021 12:11

JasonMomoasgirlfriend

I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to prove with those photos.

hamstersarse · 01/10/2021 12:12

So if your 15 year old was playing up then you think the best way to deal with that situation would be to kick her in the stomach? Would you be happy for a teacher at your child's school to kick them in the stomach when they were misbehaving? What about your partner? Or is it just police who you feel should be allowed to kick children?

@CuckooCall

Would you be happy with your daughter resisting arrest and being abusive to police if she was "playing up"?

NewYearNewTwatName · 01/10/2021 12:12

JasonMomoasgirlfriend

quick call the police, someone is harassing you! by answering your question!

Samuraisammy · 01/10/2021 12:12

I think @MrsRobbieHart is jealous you are Mr Momomas girlfriend! @JasonMomoasgirlfriend

JasonMomoasgirlfriend · 01/10/2021 12:13

@knittingaddict

JasonMomoasgirlfriend

I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to prove with those photos.

It wasn't her stomach that was kicked at all as posted on the thread title. He ran in, kicked her whilst her back is turned when he saw she is going at his colleague. Seems justified to me
JasonMomoasgirlfriend · 01/10/2021 12:14

@Samuraisammy

I think *@MrsRobbieHart is jealous you are Mr Momomas girlfriend! @JasonMomoasgirlfriend*
I agree 😉
knittingaddict · 01/10/2021 12:14

@Alcemeg

Those girls are pretty wild!
The first one maybe, but she is under the control of the police pretty quickly. The second girl is wild? Really?
MrsRobbieHart · 01/10/2021 12:14

@hamstersarse so are you saying if your DD was playing up and being abusive you would be happy with a teacher/parent/police officer kicking her like this officer did?

faithfulbird20 · 01/10/2021 12:14

Scary world where you cannot trust the police at all.

Doomscrolling · 01/10/2021 12:14

Christ on a bike, they were a pair of 15 year old girls chucked out of a pub on a Saturday afternoon for underage drinking. That the initial officer couldn’t manage them better is pretty poor, but the he-man rushing in with the kick is unbelievable.

I’m glad the (really annoying) bloke filmed it so the police are held to account.

After the Sarah Everard trial, you’d think police forces would be being a lot more careful how they treat women and girls. Confidence in the police is rock bottom. This only confirms why.

ILoveJamaica · 01/10/2021 12:15

Is fly kicking an actual method you were trained in to remove an aggressive person from their victim?

No, but there are plenty of moves that would also be termed as "aggressive" if you saw them on camera, because when you are trying to control someone who is attacking you, or resisting arrest, your life can be in danger very quickly.

Unless you've been in this situation, you simply have no idea how you would react. If I was arrested tomorrow, I would comply.

The general public has no idea what most of the Police's "clientele" are really like. In the 5 years that I served, I must have been in thousands of houses. Only TWO houses were clean with normal people. The rest were absolutely filthy, we are talking black grunge all over the kitchen, black bare mattresses on the floor, shite smeared all over the walls, no carpets, tons of drugs everywhere, cannabis plants, no one in the household working, most people beating each other up over stupid arguments over silly shite that no one can remember the next day, people drinking all day in the street if there's a glimpse of sun, gangs meeting for fights, people who don't wash for days. It's absolutely horrible and you come home stinking of it.

Why don't you sign up to be a Special? Your eyes will be truly opened to what Officers are dealing with every day.

hamstersarse · 01/10/2021 12:16

@MrsRobbieHart

I wonder if his approach would have been the same on a 6ft strapping bloke.

I’ve seen a few police arrests in person. (And many on those “cops on camera” shows) I’ve seen how they take down very large men. There is no fly kicking. Sometimes there are batons, or pepper spray or tasers. I’ve never seen fly kicking.

Would you have been happier if he had used pepper spray or a baton?

I suspect you don't think he should have restrained her at all

MrsRobbieHart · 01/10/2021 12:16

@Samuraisammy

I think *@MrsRobbieHart is jealous you are Mr Momomas girlfriend! *@JasonMomoasgirlfriend**
This is exactly what it is! Grin I am jealous of *@JasonMomoasgirlfriend* so I found a thread she was on and posted something truthful in response to another poster in the hope she would respond with lies just so I could….ummm…be on a thread with Jason momoa’s girlfriend… Confused

Mission accomplished!! Grin

knittingaddict · 01/10/2021 12:18

@GeidiPrimes

Those stating he kicked her in the legs - the kicker said he "only kicked her in the waist". So he's admitted it. Stop with the gaslighting please.

I was a bit grossed out by the commentary of the camera guy, it sounded sleazy.

I listened with the sound turned off. Maybe that was a good decision.
JasonMomoasgirlfriend · 01/10/2021 12:18

@NewYearNewTwatName

JasonMomoasgirlfriend

quick call the police, someone is harassing you! by answering your question!

No, I couldn't arsed writing a whole long thread about the who said what. If that poster realised I posted a fairly lengthy post at 11.25 submitted it then quoted her "blatant lie" post in the same minute to say it's not because he didn't actually kick her in the stomach. I then posted photos to show it's clearly not her stomach. This person is then like "great so exactly what I said" or some shit. Im not flicking back and forth pages to quote parts of this, frankly ridiculous, conversation. All I'm saying is it's not her fucking stomach. It's not her pelvis it's more like her bum cheek/thigh.
MrsRobbieHart · 01/10/2021 12:18

Unless you've been in this situation, you simply have no idea how you would react. If I was arrested tomorrow, I would comply.

Interesting that you said this rather than saying how you would react in that officers shoes. Are you saying you would have fly kicked that girl just as he did?

yourhairiswinterfire · 01/10/2021 12:19

Not excusing the behaviour of the girl, I'd be mortified if she was my child and she absolutely deserved to be dealt with for trying to prevent the police officer from doing his job. But not dealt with in that way.

The police officer that booted her is a grown man. She's a child. As if we're supposed to believe that this man couldn't have easily restrained her. Instead, he chose to kick her in her abdomen.

What if the next girl/woman he decides to fly kick out of the way instead of safely restraining is pregnant?

hamstersarse · 01/10/2021 12:19

[quote MrsRobbieHart]@hamstersarse so are you saying if your DD was playing up and being abusive you would be happy with a teacher/parent/police officer kicking her like this officer did?[/quote]
I would think fair enough.

She was being a dick. And there are consequences to that in the real world.

NewYearNewTwatName · 01/10/2021 12:19

Is fly kicking an actual method you were trained in to remove an aggressive person from their victim?

No

Thank you. Don't condone it then.

hamstersarse · 01/10/2021 12:19

That is specifically in relation to a police officer. Not a teacher!

faithfulbird20 · 01/10/2021 12:20

Wtf why are the police allowed to behave like this??? Tougher laws are needed. It feels like third world countries where women are abused and have no rights or power. Do we live in a third world country?