Greater Manchester Police brutality

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/24/armed-police-officer-filmed-kicking-man-in-face-at-manchester-airport

Sickening behaviour. Surely tasering the man is enough.
He is on the floor tasered so you give him some kickings to the head?

Hope this is properly investigated.
Greater Manchester Police have an awful reputation.

I mean regardless of what led up to it…it doesn’t look good.

Plus, the incidents described by those women about being strip searched by GMB are awful. And they definitely didn’t deserve that type of treatment.

In a city centre environment this would look to be an excessive use of force by the police but in an airport there's no margin for error and they can't take chances with people who offer them violence. This applies equally to all demographics; the police would have surely stamped just as hard on a party of non-compliant, drunken stags - probably even harder. I hope the officer returns to full duties after receiving words of advice and that the aggrieved parties get no compensation and are charged with any relevant criminal offences.

Not after the fact, while the suspect is on the floor and subdued. That's what people seem to conveniently forget.

Seriously, which part of on the floor in the
prone position with your arms flat at your side or on your knees with your hands behind your head do you see as non-compliant? How does someone comply further?

Their arms were wriggling - he could have been reaching for anything - better safe than sorry in an airport environment. He wasn't compliant and he was still potentially a threat.

My opinion is that some people are very fired up and close to the edge. Which is why those who uphold the law need to be professional at all times.

There is absolutely no evidence that this man was reaching for anything. This is the same rhetoric that US police have been using for years and it’s bullshit.

If the subdued man really wanted to reach for anything then the police officer kneeling on him bringing weapons closer certainly didn’t negate any risk did it?

This highly trained police officer lost control, stop excusing that.

@Æthelred have you watched the video? The man is still ,face down on the floor(after being tasered). He is not moving. He doesn't move even after the first kick, only after the second one. There are no wriggly hands and the officer is perfectly safe and out of range even if there were. No where in police training it says to kick suspects in the head in order to safely cuff them. Come on.

Slight exaggeration there. Not a whole city. Just a large unruly mob who don’t respect law and order, and tbh would probably use any excuse to try to challenge the police. Most of those there probably don’t even know what’s happened and just turn up as part of the rent a mob crew.

In answer to your question No

You are coming close to condoning by saying we don't know how much trauma had been suffered. Thats not relevant.

Please stop telling me to stop commenting,that I'm silly, that I'm drunk and I need to F off.

And I wouldn’t put much confidence in the womens statements about strip searched until the full facts are available. People in these situations often lie or exaggerate the issue to fit their own agendas.

I have seen some footage but not all the footage. Nobody has seen all the footage yet - by "all the footage" I mean all the material from the dozens of CCTV cameras, police body cameras and footage from bystanders. As I alluded in my first post, if this had happened in town it would be offensive. On this occasion all my sympathy is with the police.

It's scary that people don't understand the difference between criminals being criminals and law enforcers behaving in the same way.

Why stop there? Why follow the legal processes with court and sentencing and prison? Why not just kill him on the spot? The police in America already do!

These cases have been investigated by Dame Vera Baird. The report was published on 18th July.

A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Sky News Link

HTH.

He’s been suspended. Likely will end up being fired. What more do you suggest? Death by stoning?

And? Does that apply to every allegation? Do we put trust in criminals always telling the truth? As I said, needs investigating for the facts in this situation, not simply accepting someone’s narrative. May be telling the truth, might not be. It’s a dangerous road to go down if we accept what people say by default.

Don’t change the goal posts.

You implied that the women making complaints of strip searches that have been found to be unlawful were lying.

People should be supporting the police that beat up a violent thug.

I don't think any of the police beat up their colleague

I didn't know this. So, the GMP are rotten to the core.

Attempted murder 👌

He was carrying a gun. He was an armed officer.

It's nice to see that the aggrieved party have got themselves a reputable, level headed lawyer who steers well clear of bandwagons.

Nice and local for them too - Birmingham is very near Rochdale.

"Family lawyer claims police officer kicking teenager in the head at Manchester airport was 'an attempted assassination' - after police station was pelted with eggs and hundreds marched through city in second night of protests"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13674959/Manchester-Airport-family-lawyer-protests-police.html?ito=native_share_article-top

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No because she had been violently attacked by a thug who got his comeuppance

The police response to this has flavours of their response to when they killed (or murdered) Sheku Bayoh.

They claimed he'd assaulted a female officer too (stamped on her) and maintained that line right the way through the inquiries until a video emerged showing their version of events didn't happen.

It's amazing how quickly people make excuses for violent thugs just because they've got a badge and a uniform.