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’m glad to hear this is now a criminal investigation.

It was the car park at the payment terminals
Not a crowded airport

There seemed to be plenty of people around plus presumably CCTV. Why don’t the police release that so that we can see them attacking the officers?

There are laws about disclosure. Any CCTV evidence would be shown at any criminal trial - of anyone involved.

Can you link to a source please?

Yes, I'd like to see a source for that, too. I'd have thought that it would have been all over the news and that he wouldn't have been out on bail. But as soon as Timmy Robertson, or Stewart Lee comes out with something like that, all the apologists jump on it as if it's Gospel.

Whilst pretending that the actual footage is fake / he deserved it, anyway.

The story I read said there was a row on the plane between the older lady and some bloke, who then shunted her with his trolley later at baggage collection.

Then later in the terminal she pointed them out to her son's who'd come to collect her, argument started, police got involved, ending in the videos we've seen

This is utterly sickening. These thugs are actually armed police!

How are we meant to respect the police when we see over and over they are thugs and racists and murderers? I have no respect for the police at all. My own experience is of them being lazy, ignorant and aggressive.

If this officer is not jailed it will be a travesty. He could have so easily killed the young man.

I don't believe that happened for a minute. The police are well known to lie about these kinds of things to try and get sympathy after being violent. They like to pretend they got assaulted even when said person was handcuffed!!

@Sunshineandpool I know there was a fight and that's why the police attended. I know a fight broke between the police and a number of suspects. I know police officers were injured. I know 4 men were arrested with one of the charges being injuring emergency services personnel.

I have no idea how that man was involved, the extent of his involvement, whether he actually harmed anyone (including the officers etc) . I don't get where posters are getting their info that they can state with such certainty who he assaulted and how and what injuries he caused.

Do we know that Police officers were actually assaulted and actually injured? We only have the word of a force known for dishonesty.

I suppose like the vast percentage of the population I've never had dealing with the police ( apart from one incident in Manchester City Centre) So I'm sort of neutral.
I do think the job attracts a certain type of person and promotes a certain culture.

You have obviously never watched your colleague have their nose broken by a violent person. Until you have, wind your neck in

So the police should have freedom to behave however they want, even with extreme violence, and the public who they are there to protect should just keep our mouths shut?

No thanks. I will continue to demand professionalism from authority figures in trusted positions. Or at the very least, for them not to break the laws they are there to uphold.

I have!!

In a school.

I didn’t find it appropriate to kick the little shit in the head there either.

Interesting that the man in question was released shortly after being arrested without charge isn’t it?

Also, you think it’s acceptable, or even safe, for an armed Officer to act violently due to adrenaline? Scary!

Do we know for sure how the officer's nose was broken? I am not speculating on things which I have not seen. I know for sure that I saw a prone man, lying on his front, being kicked, and then stamped on the head by a person, who is meant to uphold the law though.

@user1492729177 I have . In a school. Or beaten black and blue. Or with crack ribs. Funnily enough i never kicked any of the kids responsible in the head.

Yes, I can see that and it is very disturbing. Basically what some people are saying is it is ok to do whatever you want to a criminal. If someone hit, killed or stole, you can come up to them and do whatever you want because they are bad.

I mean it’s a pretty primitive argument isn’t it?

Where is the evidence of the broken nose?
Police are excellent at lying

Master of cover ups.
They are not squeaky clean law abiders either.
Rapists
Murderers
And as reported yesterday one officer has been jailed for stealing from a dying man in the street.

You are hired to be professionals not thugs.

I used to work in criminal law and have watched so much sickening CCTV footage of out of control thugs kicking and stamping on someone's head, often causing life changing injuries and sometimes death to the victim. We need to be able to trust our police officers not to act in the same way. We cannot ever tolerate a police officer acting like this. It is vile, disgusting, and inexcusable. Yes policing is a very difficult job, but for an officer to act like this in public makes me very, very concerned about what is going on behind closed doors.
It is so depressing that every few weeks there is another report in the news which gives people less faith in the police. Abducting, raping and murdering women, taking photos of murder victims, racism, violence, police brutality, the list goes on and on and on. It is just not acceptable. We need to demand better standards than this.

This stamping on somebody's head is totally beyond me.

Well, not nose broken but I've seen someone very close to me get punched hard enough to knock her down. In what followed, despite the opportunity, nobody got their head kicked or stamped on. He was restrained, the police were called, he was arrested. The police that arrested him also didn't stamp on his head.

Some in this thread would have you believe that not stamping on someone's head is an unusual act of self restraint. Whereas I reckon anyone who's ever been exposed to violence would recognise that move for what it is. The only people that think it's a good idea are 10 pints deep and can be found outside a Croydon night club.

And are commonly known as criminals