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.

Let the correct people deal with this following review of all of the evidence.

If the officer requires sanction then so be it but this also applies to the individuals who believed it acceptable to attack police officers.

We cannot have a situation where members of certain communities are held to different standards relating both to their own behaviours but also the behaviour aimed towards them.

Unfortunately we already have that situation @FlameGrilledSquirrel and policing differs/level of arrests etc to who the police/authorities are scared of. Expect this to only get worse.

In 2015 there were less than 15,000 assaults on police

Last year there were over 50,000.

It's clear who's winning in this battle for a lawless country.

No community must get favourable treatment in a thread about a member of that favourably treated community being kicked in the head in an obviously favourable way.

'Non-threatening'? Is this a joke? Have you seen the extended footage?

These criminals are lucky not to have been wiped out there on the spot by the firearms officers. In most other countries around the world, you fuck around with armed police and it's game over.

‘He was lying face down on the floor. The officers had every opportunity to handcuff him. He was not posing any threat at that point.’

I doubt that any armed officer would put thier semi-automatic weapon down in a highly volatile environment to put some handcuffs on an aggressive protagonist who is resisting arrest.

Given that several fellow officers have been assaulted, including said officer, & bystanders are hostile. I understand that one of the protagonists had tried to get a weapon off an armed officer.

There were no opportunities for any of the officers to routinely handcuff the protagonist. Multiple efforts to contain the situation had been made.

I can't believe those statistics. Even 15000 is 40 a day. I am surprised that anyone wants to go into policing and would be appalled if any of my children wanted to join despite my Grandad being in the met in much more lawful times.

Because it wasn't a white person throwing th punch

The deaths in custody stats are misleading as about 65% are due to natural causes and the rest due to alcohol and drugs.

Having seen the latest video release, I agree. Except the Officer needs to learn to control his temper.

Oh FFS! 🙄 You Reform types really are nauseating

Lying face down is non-threatening

The post you are replying to has it and I doubt they’d make it to this stage

These criminals are lucky not to have been wiped out there on the spot by the firearms officers. In most other countries around the world, you fuck around with armed police and it's game over.

He wasn't lying face down as a result of his own compliance he was tased.

Before that he was attempting to at best seriously injure the officer and at worst kill him.

You have no idea what the threat was at that point in time.

I've no idea why people on here have suddenly become experts on behaviour in violent situations when the most violent situation they've encountered is likely to be a spider biting them.

Agree. Pp on mn speaking with certainty for some reason

My point is that was before he was lying face-down. It’s for the Courts to deal with what went before.

No your point is that you think someone laying down on the floor isn't a threat this is incorrect.

A single compliant suspect who hasn't attacked anyone laying down on the floor because they have been told to do so surrounded by several officers is unlikely to be a threat.

A violent attacker laying on the floor who's seriously injured several police officers and wouldn't go down till they were tased is a massive threat to an officer until both they, and the other person that's attacked them is in handcuffs.

This is real life, not some tv drama.

Jean Charles menzi was innocent shot dead by armed police because was mistaken for a terrorist.

that was 20 years ago.

you had to go an awful long way back to dig that one up didn't you

@MyGladEagle he's actually moving more after the kick. The female officer cuffs him without having to kick him in the head or otherwise. So why was there a need when he was on the floor , but not once he starts moving more? The kick to the head didn't incapacitate him , did it?

Especially when that officer has a gun strapped to his leg ,which blue top guys could have easily reached in those split seconds.Then the shit would have really hit the fan.

What do you mean why the need?

It's a fluent violent situation, not a lunchtime work meeting.

30k of which were assaults without injury and the total number was 41k, rather than more than 50k.

Still a massive increase , but no need to exaggerate.

Last year, there were 50,259 assaults on UK police officers – 40,330 in England
and Wales, 6,657 in Scotland, and 3,272 in Northern Ireland.

No need to downplay it to just England.

@MyGladEagle the 15k number in 2015 is also just for England and Wales. Hence using the same bench mark.