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.

If you stamp on a prone person's head you don't know right from wrong, regardless of the situation.

I think this is absolutely appalling, regardless of the events that led up to it.

@cakeorwine

Well if he beats up everyone he's not singling out Muslims is he .

That's as daft as saying the Muslim attacked a woman police officer because he has no respect for women .... oh hold on

You do understand that racist people don't just target Muslims and ignore other people.

Just like men who commit domestic violence don't just attack women.

To be fair, the “bastard” defence is a pretty common one that is often true - i.e. I don’t discriminate, I treat everyone like shit.

Just to be clear, videos are not to be accepted as they might be edited or misleading, unverified claims of parties involved to be taken as gospel

So we're now expecting our highly trained police officers to behave like the 'scummy thugs' they are meant to protect us from?

Why don't we also arm them all, and with permission to go around shooting citizens in the face and all sorts too?

I truly hope you're not one of the wretches the force is seemingly trying to root out.

I’m usually very suspicious of the police.
I remember the miners strike.

However I hope the policeman who kicked the man is sanctioned/ retrained whatever but doesn’t lose his job.

I hope the men who assaulted the police get the book thrown at them.
I see they’re already talking to The Sun.

Nobody should ever fuck about in airports.

If a police officer actually beat up a genuine thug/criminal I don't care. Genuinely. If he beat up someone who was having an MH breakdown or who was totally innocent then I'd worry.

The problem is we need to see how it all started. When did the female officer get assaulted, were people fighting with the firearms officer.

I do think the scrutiny of Police in this country is positive and actually ensures we have the best Police in the world. As in 99.9% of the world, you fight with firearms cops in an airport you end up dead.

There is no excuse for his actions, absolutely none. If you watch the full video there is another man sitting on a bench who was asked to get on the floor. He complies and kneels down on the floor with his hands behind his head. At this point a police officer stamps on his legs/genitals. I am shocked that people are defending their actions.

What precipated all this I wonder? It must be more than somebody shoving a luggage trolly.

Actually seeing first hand how quickly things ramped up ( on another occasion)in Manchester maybe not?

What started the whole episode off?

Just thinking if that scenario happened in another country. He was assaulting officers in an airport and apparently also tried to grab an officers firearm. If that had happened in the USA he would have been shot!

Don't attack coppers, then you won't be in trouble!

I agree with all of your post. The man sitting there was violently attacked by the officer. No doubt people will argue that he was a threat. Even if he was perceived as a potential threat, the way he was assaulted was completely unacceptable.

What a bizarre response. This armed police officer is supposedly highly trained to deal with life or death situations, where reacting appropriately within a split second is expected. We don't even know the full story of the broken nosed officer, however, regardless, what the police officer did was wholly unacceptable. Police are not responsible for meting out "stupid prizes", that is for the court of law to decide.

Jean Charles de Menezes was murdered by a police officer. A completely innocent man who happened to be mistaken for a Muslim assumed to be something else, without any evidence.

Good luck to anyone ever trying to portray stamping on someone's head as an appropriate use of force.

And @PollyPeachum I can only assume you are white by your last post. It is a fact that levels of police brutality is higher within the black and brown population. It's extremely naive and incorrect to think coppers only "mess around" with actual criminals. Look up the Casey Report.

Yeah the grabbing for the gun excuse came out very quick from the police, unfortunately for them the point at which he decides to kick a the man in the face and then stamp on his head is on video and and as he's face down on the ground even if this had previously happened it wouldn't justify his actions.

If someone gets shot trying to grab an officers gun, absolutely fair enough.

If they manage to subdue that person without shooting him, they don't then get a free hit so it's largely irrelevant to the actions that have been caught on camera such as making people for filming and then illegally searching people to try and seize their phones

Well yes that’s awful, but at the same time HES AT WORK. He’s meant to be a professional, and whilst I honestly don’t blame him for how he reacted, it’s not acceptable in his job.

Thay are managing it quite nicely on another site closely connected with this one.

Unless you’re a woman and Manchester Police decide to sexually assault you of course….

https://news.sky.com/story/greater-manchester-police-report-reveals-officers-demeaning-strip-searches-unlawful-arrests-and-retraumatising-of-victims-13180174I

Surely we should hold the police to higher standards -their job is to keep the peace, not dispense vigilante justice on the spot And what about the older lady who is also roughly pushed? Wrong time wrong place...In the airport?