Police filmed kicking man's head at airport

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7259wpl1x9o.amp

You want people on this thread who disagree with you to be victims of violent assault? I'm speechless! 😳

Oh give over, the police aren't there to dish punishment - they are not a court!!!

The thug was incapacitated and no longer a threat.

The officer was acting out of anger - it's ok to say he was wrong while also acknowledging how prior acts affected his judgement

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I sincerely and truly and with all my heart hope that anyone advocating for the violent criminal thugs meets with one of them and is assaulted in exactly the same way as the police were assaulted."

What a load of bullshit binary thinking 😂😂😂

People need to understand that police officers are only humans but are expected to do a shitty, dangerous job for shit pay and get crucified every time they get it wrong.

This officer was probably flooded with adrenaline and full of completely normal human reactions to being violently assaulted and seeing his female colleagues violently assaulted.

Have you ever been abroad? Have you ever watched French or Spanish police in action? I feel so sorry for the British police. They'll be losing staff just as nursing, medicine, teachers and prison officers are walking away. We'll miss them when they are gone because we handed over our country to lawless thugs who expect the rights without the responsibilities.

And humans make mistakes 🤗

How on earth were the protagonists not charged based on that?

Have they not been charged at all?

The new footage I think does change the narrative that was being pushed by some that this was a completely random show of force by the police and they hadn't done anything to provoke any sort of police involvement. It also shows that he was on the floor mere seconds after everything was kicking off, not the same picture as someone who was compliant on the floor and zero risk. That said kicking in the head is never acceptable, and that's why the independent enquiry is important; it's not all about getting the officer in trouble (although I do think he shouldn't go unpunished), but identifying if response plans are effective or not and what can be learnt from it.

And can count himself very lucky he didn't get shot.

No you are wrong we are not far right supporters at all . I am left of Labour but I have so much sympathy and respect for these police officers who were violently attacked by these low life only for them to try and play the victims themselves.
The lack of respect these men have for armed police is mind blowing. I hope the police officer is reinstated and the thugs jailed .Are they actually walking the streets at the moment ?

The officer may well have gone too far for a split second but the way these scumbags acted is in part due to what a soft touch the police are seen as these days. It was a few days after the Leeds riots with police running away and unable to deal with the situation.

Would they have reacted so violently to police in an airport abroad? I can guarantee they'd have been met with extremely robust policing if they did which would not have ended well for them. The country needs to be stop being a soft touch, then people stop behaving like this in the first place.

No they wouldn't act this way abroad because they know damn well they would be given a beating they would never forget.

This country is going down the toilet because we allowed the social contract to break down. 'We demand our rights with zero responsibility'.

Have these scum been arrested or are they selling their stories, organising protests and playing the race card without any questions being asked?

They've been arrested on the day, charged with various crimes and released on bail.

Another bunch of scummy thugs who think they can do whatever they want then complain about being victims...

At airports security has to be tight and I can completely understand police officers reacting to complete idiots who were physically violent first.

If they had tried this in Franc or the USA they would have had a gun in their face and would have been at risk of being shot.

Enough with the race card as well....

You don't want to be kicked by a police officer? then don't behave like scum in the first place.

So many people in this country are also bleating about rights but forget that our rights and freedom also come with responsibilities towards society.

I am truly wondering why the media just showed the first part of the video and left it a few days. Protests were organised, people talked about defunding the police and claimed that GMP were picking on their community.

Why was this story allowed to be presented with just half the facts. As others say behave like scum and in other countries you would have a gun in your face. This is why the Far Right like Robinson and people like Farage get the air time.

I thought it was two types of footage.

Original stuff is mobile videos filmed by friends/bystanders

Yesterday's is CCTV... leaked perhaps?

Same. Politicians and the media seemed to have to full video. So why crop it to that extent?

Actually I’ll edit to add I’d be interested in which media had the full video or not. Burnham seemed to have seen it by own admission

The brutality the police faced is incredible. In a fair few other countries they’d likely be shot

And no I’m not advocating the same here

Yeah it is, the mobile phone footage was posted on social media and of course followed by the grifters and their solicitor controlling the narrative to suit their agenda. It does seem like the CCTV was leaked rather than released, but the statement from the police lined up with what happened, lots just didn't believe it. I dont think it was purposeful as such, it can take a few days to obtain CCTV and on top it was probably being reviewed and considered as part of the charges and the investigation- I'm not sure when they're 'allowed' to make it public but it's not usually straight away. It's the curse of social media again really, the videos were obviously cropped because it suited the guy who posted it to only show that part, but then it puts pressure on releasing further info perhaps before they should.

Probably because the first was filmed by bystanders who can post / share as soon as they want to whomever they want, and the second is (most likely) CCTV footage which takes a while to obtain and review as part of an investigation rather than promptly releasing it to the public.

This is happening far too often now. The rent a mob protestors were making the usual protests but didn’t any of them ask why this happened in the first place. None of them…..

Also why did Burnham and some other politicians see the whole story/video footage before us? It only told half a story at first. Who are they to see this first? I guess though as others say these scum, playing the race card and protesting on the street got their message through.

We seem very nervous of upsetting certain communities. I don’t think this has anything to do with race btw. The scum bags wanted to make it about race and being picked on but they behaved appalling and with guns flying around, police officers noses being broken etc the police could have had a gun taken off them.

I can't imagine what it must be like to be on duty at an international airport knowing you could get blown away by a terrorist any minute then a bunch of scrotes (of whatever race or background) starts knocking seven shades of shite out of you and your colleagues, and breaks a female colleague's nose. Which could be a diversion for terrorists to run amok.

I’m Spanish. I’ve seen despicable things from police officers (specially In the area I’m from) and there is so much that need to be changed within the police .yet, I’ve never seen any police officer hitting any person that was on the floor on their head

You want me to be assaulted? Did I read that correctly?
I wouldn't wish anyone in the world to be a victim of violence. Not those police officers, not the guy the policeman hurt back. Not you, not people who are politically very different from me. Not anyone!
It's extremely disturbing to me that there are people in the world who are actually wishing others (total strangers ) to be victims of violence. Horrific, and very very sad 😔

Spanish police are tough and have a reputation. Nobody would start fights with armed police officers there at airports (or in any other country) It's considered fair game in the UK because the police have got so weak.