Greater Manchester Police brutality

[Gummybear23]

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.

@MauveCrow ermm no. The police approach the suspects when they are paying for their parking,presumably to arrest them for the previous fight/incident (why they were called to attend) which was fair enough. If they suspected any of the things you claimed then it was an absolute shit show as weapons/explosives/whatever could've been deployed several times over during the incident while the police was not in control and one man at least was free (at several points) to do as he wanted.

I saw those two men sad on a sofa looking very innocent and playing the victim. But now more video has emerged ... wow what a pair of violent thugs. And we haven't seen what happened on the plane yet.
Well done Police we don't need these violent men in this country or on the streets. Hope they are visitors and can be deported.

@Zebedee999 i meant to say ‘meet’.

I stand corrected in that case.(Still haven’t met women in real life who’d condone this sort of violence I will also add.)

Ermmm No. The police would change their threat assessment after getting attacked, punched, and injured.

Most police interactions do result in violence, the fact this did probably made the copper wonder why they are physically grabbing and attacking someone carrying a loaded firearm. I know I would probably do anything I thought was required to eliminate that potential threat.

Are you really that moronic?

These idiots are lucky the police were restrained enough not just just shoot them dead.

Maybe the police should only be allowed to carry narwhal tusks in the future.

I agree

I've now seen the whole video and it totally changes things.

Didn't realise they were police? Christ almighty have you ever seen armed airport police? They stand out a mile? Why would anyone who is not a police officer be patrolling with large firearms?
Stop trying to make bloody excuses

The "community" came from the media when walking about meeting with them

Quite why the police would need to is another matter.

Those "protesting" are troublemakers

*talking. Not walking

I am so not sorry that these violent thugs that attacked the police got a kicking. Too many males of a certain community think they are untouchable, time they understood they are not.

@Getonwitit which community?

As people point out the police face violence every day in their jobs, and arrest violent criminals on the regs.

They mostly do it without stamping on people.

Like literally every day, maybe even every hour there's a copper somewhere, wrestling some scumbag to the ground and putting themselves in danger. And not stamping on anyone.

Kicking and stamping (and later spraying the people against the wall, interesting it was all the same guy, was he still riding the wave then?) is the story. Police doing normal police things, scumbags doing normal scumbag things, isn't a story, it's a daily occurrence.

I get some people don't care what happened to the guy on the floor and I feel little sympathy for anyone that fights and then gets a kicking. My issues are with a highly trained armed policeman that apparently gets a bit extra and emotional in dispensing what is unfortunately a likely part of his daily duties. Poor split second judgement and a gun sounds like a worrying combination.

Released on bail, so charges are standing. And as for source - today’s video is good enough source. Those thugs were out of order and I hope the police officer gets back to his duty, while those two are jailed on multiple criminal offences including the unprovoked attack on Police.

How stupid. Have you spoken to many?

I do wonder, had the female police officer hit her head and died after the vicious punch, the male officer then been choked to death because she wasn't able to get up and taze the suspect, what you would be saying?

It's rather peculiar that you're so concerned about what an officer does when his and his colleagues life is being put on the line. Are you planning to go around viciously attacking people and putting their lives in danger, and hoping that you get treated with the utmost duty of care when you do it?

@Gummybear23 great update from you. Now that the unmotivated racial brutality line has been shut down they can go down the mental health route. Most likely caused by living in such an awful intolerant country such as the UK. Dear god

I actually think the media and politicians should be banned from using the word 'community.'

@eggplant16 what is stupid? That I can’t help the fact I’ve never met a Muslim woman who’s condoned violence against other women? How is that stupid?

'Poor split second judgement and a gun sounds like a worrying combination.'

Hardly as he didn't shoot him did he .

They'd suffered a sustained violent attack, so what if he lashed out at the end. So what.

I hope all the defenders of the poor 'brain cyst' violent thug go on twitter to retract their support for the absolutely awful scum.

@Janiie they won't though. There's still plenty of virtue signallers on here still giving their support to them. I despair.

I know a few police officers and they do face regular violence but it is usually drunks taking a swing at them or offenders struggling during an arrest. It is not usually someone pummelling them repeatedly in the head after they have pulled their taser. It is not someone doing this at a high-risk terrorist target.

I think the use of ‘force continuum’ settles this matter

@MyGladEagle my point is purely procedural and based in fairness. Either you look at the controversial kick in isolation, or you look at the context. But you cannot pick and choose which context you can be arsed with.

If we're going to consider the state of mind of the officer in order to mitigate their actions, we should be considering the state of mind of all involved.

Again, I don't condone the violent perpetrators. They are a disgrace. The assault on the police was disgraceful. But there is more to this, and it should all be investigated.

Agree

And what is this shite about a cyst. That solicitor is a stirring shite

What is it you would like to see happen here then?

If you're in a situation where someone is about to take an officers gun and shoot you, would you like the police officers main concern to be what measure of force is the most fair on the person about to do that?

What is it that makes you think erring on the side of caution when applying force to someone that's violently out of control has a successful outcome? Are you an expert in disabling violent criminals?