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Manchester Airport: Police filmed stamping and kicking man's head

A police officer has been filmed kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying on the ground at Manchester Airport.

The uniformed male officer is seen holding a Taser over the man, who is lying face down, before striking him twice while other officers shout at onlookers to stay back in a video shared widely online.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said firearms officers had been attacked while attempting to arrest someone following a fight in the airport’s Terminal 2 on Tuesday. It said it had referred itself to the police watchdog.

Anger has grown over the video and a crowd of what appeared to be several hundred people protested outside the police station in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday evening.

werefreeatlast ,

Let me make light of this horrible reason why I dislike travel. It’s the fucking peanuts! Isn’t it? We’ve been pushed from having a very small but still nice meal to 3 peanuts and you can’t bring water. WTF! I rather watch 10 people puke than not have a choice of drinking something when I feel like it… not when they bring me a tiny cup of whatever. So my carry-on is always some water and lots of snacks.

I bet that’s what started all this. I hate flying. I hate having to undress for the TSA to count my balls and to see if there’s only one on each side. I don’t do that for driving my car. And I drive my car around all sorts of places. Why do we care about flying safety so much? Specially safety with respect to other passengers vs safety with respect to emergency door rapid disassembly? I rather watch a cop beat the shit out of the CEO of Boeing when a screw is missing. That would make flying a whole lot safer.

RandomGuy79 ,

Ah it’s nice to see pushback, but bro went too far for the uk for sure

Sweetpeaches69 ,

No doubt it’s because he was presumably Muslim, or at least the cops would think he was being that the woman he was with is wearing a hijab.

ImpressiveEssay ,

Anybody who thinks this cop is behaving better than the one in the states that shot in self defense is an idiot imho.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

In a tragic lack of manners

a person taped a cop to the chair, beat the hell out of them, shocked them with a tazer and repeatedly stomped on their head

and got called a psycho, and sentenced to death.

This cop on the other hand

got punished

for being recorded doing so.

sandbox ,

How can we fight back against the police, when they never face consequences, but we do?

octopus_ink ,

How can we fight back against the police, when they never face consequences, but we do?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d3247eed-5dd3-4bb8-84ab-36c07a72af45.jpeg

ImpressiveEssay ,

They just have to not reach for pots of boiling water after threatening to use it as a weapon.

That’s eems reasonable…

lanolinoil ,
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

When she grabs the pot of boiling water, one deputy steps back “away from your hot steaming water,” he says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she says in response.

“Huh?” the deputy says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she repeats.

“You better fking not or I swear to God I’ll fking shoot you in the f**king face,” Grayson says to her.

Does it? Is a rebuking a threat with a weapon? Why doesn’t the militaries just have shoot if you’re scared rules but USA police do?

ImpressiveEssay ,

I don’t know if your last sentence was put together enough to be understandable.

Again, I think if a person was 5/6 feet away from a military man with loaded gun, and they threatened the military man, and he raised his weapon and threatened to shoot them if they attempt to throw the boiling water in them… Yeah, I think they would have equally protected themselves.

SoJB ,

So what’s your mental gymnastic response gonna be to shooting a civilian in the head who is lying on the floor begging for forgiveness? With the pot of boiling water not even in her hand?

Because that’s what happened. Why are you knowingly spreading misinformation?

You should just admit you want all blacks to die. It’s really fucking easy to sus you people out, you know? Do you think you’re being clever or something?

ImpressiveEssay ,

Did you not watch the video?

nomous ,

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    ImpressiveEssay ,

    I just found out about Lemmy.

    No need to be incredibly rude.

    I don’t understand why anybody would protect a person behaving in a finally… suicidal fashion… And base it on the colour of their skin.

    Do you think race effects people fundamentally, so that because she is black she deserves special treatment?

    Did you watch the full video?

    nomous ,

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    ImpressiveEssay ,

    Again. So rude…

    You replied to me, wasting me time bud.

    nomous ,

    Oh I’ll happily waste your time but it’ll be on my terms.

    brygphilomena ,

    Rebuking is not a threat. You and the cop do not know what rebuke means.

    He overreacted to a word which means “I’m disapproving strongly.”

    ArmokGoB ,

    No one can hold you accountable if you overrun all the cops.

    sandbox ,

    Just once, I want to see a video where the cops are beating on someone and the crowd actually intervenes and turns the table on them.

    I would love it if we could make the police feel afraid to do this shit. Not scared of losing their job or having to do paperwork, but scared of the actual people there on the street. Scared that they might not have the monopoly on violence that they thought they did.

    Nurgus ,

    Just for context, this is in the UK so the officer WILL be prosecuted and punished accordingly.

    It is worth noting that other officers at the scene had a broken nose and other injuries before this happened. It doesn’t excuse what he does but there’s certainly a lot more to the story here.

    gnutrino ,

    To be fair, while he will see more consequences than would be likely if this had happened in the US, it’s still pretty rare for police officers to be successfully prosecuted in the UK. More likely we’ll be looking at an IOPC investigation and internal disciplinary procedures rather than criminal prosecution.

    Nurgus ,

    I guarantee you that his career in the police is over. It’ll be interesting to find out more about the context, there’s clearly already been a lot of violence happening to the cops before the video starts. I’m certainly expecting criminal prosecution against him.

    FarceOfWill ,

    police prosecutions in the UK are done very quietly, I’m not sure why but you’re lucky to get one small story in the newspapers for even quite horrific crimes. There are perhaps not enough, but they do happen more than people generally think.

    Deceptichum ,
    @Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

    But will they really?

    Here in Aus at least, 3 cops assaulted an autistic or downs guy in his yard one day. The court ordered them to apologise to the victim and do some bullshit “training”.

    Nurgus ,

    Yes. This is the UK. The officer is fucked. Exactly how fucked depends on the context which we don’t really have yet.

    Deceptichum ,
    @Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

    Can any other Brits confirm you actually crack down on cops? Have you followed their trials until the conclusion to see what ‘punishment’ they actually get?

    sandbox ,

    I’m British, and I wouldn’t say so. In some higher profile cases cops might lose their job, and in extreme cases they go to court, but it’s really rare for the charges to stick. There was a recent case with a famous sportsman - a pair of cop tased him, beat him with a baton, and kicked him in the head until he died. That was the first time in over 30 years a cop had actually been found guilty of manslaughter, but the other cop escaped with no charges. The bastard that got sentenced will almost definitely be released within a couple of years.

    So, yeah, if it’s high profile enough, maybe, to some extent, but otherwise, no.

    soycapitan451 ,

    Another Brit here, yes cops do get punished in high profile cases with video evidence such as this.

    The contradictory examples listed above were quite complex cases from what I remember.

    That said, as a teenager a friend of mine was beaten up in a police van in a case of mistaken identity. He was advised by his lawyer to drop the case as there was little chance of proving what happened as the police had smashed up his phone which he had been recording them with.

    Due to the context of police officers being injured prior to what’s shown on tape. I expect in this instance, the cop to get a lenient pushiment.

    Nurgus ,

    theguardian.com/…/police-officers-in-england-and-…

    This is a soft-left wing newspaper that’s generally quite critical of the police. The numbers of convictions amd sackings are quite interesting. I think there’s a lot of room for improvement but we’re starting from a MUCH better place than the US or even Aus.

    The 70% increase in convictions does not mean there’s an increase in Police bad actors. It’s an increase in pursuing convictions against them.

    sandbox ,

    About a third of police officers in England and Wales – 42,854 – received a public complaint about them. About 71% of the allegations made were serious enough that they involved either death or injury, or if proven they may have resulted in criminal or disciplinary proceedings. However, only 1% were assessed to see whether there was a case to answer, 0.3% were found to have a case to answer, and 0.2% were referred to misconduct proceedings

    Read your own fucking source.

    echodot ,

    Yeah but people complain about police all of the time. Just because only 1% of them were assessed does not mean that the others were legitimate. Sometimes it’s quite obvious that it is legitimate I really don’t think the police are a problem in the UK there’s definitely a few individuals that need their heads examining but mostly people aren’t afraid of them. Stop putting your own biases on everyone else.

    sandbox ,

    And why do you think it’s acceptable that only 1% of complaints are even so much as looked into? I think you have your own, massive bias here that you’re completely ignoring.

    ImpressiveEssay ,

    They’re not superheroes…

    sandbox ,

    I’m from the UK, and I can’t agree. Most likely, at worst, he will be dismissed from the police force. It is very rare for police constables to face criminal charges, and even rarer for those charges to actually stick.

    Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man, was reading the newspaper on the London Underground. The metropolitan police shot him in the head seven times. No officer was held accountable.

    Ian Tomlinson, a newsagent, was walking home past a protest. The metropolitan police beat him to death. A constable lost his job, but was found not guilty by the court.

    A little kid with mental health issues went up to a metropolitan police constable to ask for help. The cop pepper sprayed and beat the child 30 times with a baton. He was dismissed from the police force, but did not face criminal charges.

    And you claim that the officer responsible for this is “fucked”? Dream on. At worst he’ll have to get a real job like the rest of us.

    Nurgus ,

    The only one of those I’m familiar with is Menenez and the officers genuinely believed he had explosives. It was a fucked up situation and I do think they probably should have suffered more consequences. But honestly there’s room for a little nuance.

    British cops are not routinely armed so shooting generally is a LOT rarer.

    soycapitan451 ,

    He had been incorrectly identified as a terrorist and an imminent threat. The fuck up was not the person who fired the gun but whoever gave him the order.

    sandbox ,

    If I shot someone 7 times in the head, it wouldn’t matter how many people agreed with me that we all thought it was the devil himself crawling out of a portal to hell, I’d get charged and sentenced for manslaughter.

    The police are able to get away with literal murder and people will come out of the woodwork, wringing their hands about all of the nuances of the situation.

    No, fuck that, and fuck the police. They’re a legalised criminal gang that exists to be the fist of the ruling class and nothing more. If I could click my fingers right now and make the entire institution no longer exist I’d do it faster than you could blink.

    EnderMB ,

    Afraid that I have to agree. It’s nowhere near as extreme an example, there was a case brought against the West Midlands Police a few years ago where the cops intimidated a bunch of fans from Bristol, detained them, and forced them back on the train to Bristol. It took four years to settle the case, and the only way they were able to be taken seriously at all was because a serving policeman in Bristol felt inclined to back them, despite warnings not to do so by his peers.

    It’s the classic “who polices the police” scenario, and sadly the charges are often so painfully low that it feels like the best way to commit a crime and get away with it is to join the police…

    GeneralEmergency ,

    Woah there nelly. That be bringing any of that “logic” and “real world understanding” here

    Kecessa ,

    Maybe actually train them? In Quebec it takes 3½ years in school before you can become a cop and usually you won’t be able to do the last ½ right away, they’ll only let you in once you’re in your mid 20s so you’re more mature and it forces you to acquire related experience to build a better resume for when you send your application.

    sandbox ,

    Yeah, I just googled “police brutality quebec” and it doesn’t sound like that’s really working out for you.

    Kecessa , (edited )

    Just like if you do the same search no matter where you’ll find examples, it doesn’t mean there aren’t places where the situation is better than others and that they shouldn’t be used as an example.

    You’ll never get rid of it completely, just like you’ll never get rid of bankers committing fraud completely, just like you’ll never get rid of criminals completely, you can still try to improve things. In the UK cops don’t have guns, in Quebec the selection process is much harder to go through, what is the US doing? 6 months of training, take pretty much anyone, militarize the police force… Well buddy, what do you think will happen?

    sandbox ,

    What if I told you that we can get rid of police brutality? We can get rid of bankers committing fraud. We can get rid of crime.

    The main thing that stops us from creating a better world is refusing to believe that it’s possible.

    If we work together and dismantle the existing power structures that oppress us, then we can solve all of these problems. They’re fundamentally problems of inequality and capitalism.

    Kecessa , (edited )

    Tell me, how do you eliminate nature?

    Do you think violence didn’t exist where capitalism wasn’t a thing? You might need a trigger warning if you start reading on first Nations and their pre-European colonization history…

    ThrowawayPermanente ,

    So the first thing you need to do is recognize that nature is a social construct and nothing that happened before the 19th century counts.

    girlfreddy OP ,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    how do you eliminate nature?

    That’s like saying ‘boys will be boys’ to explain away sexual harassment or extreme hazing.

    It is not, and never has been, a valid excuse.

    Kecessa ,

    No it’s not, accumulating resources is natural (heck, our body does it without us intervening, that’s what fat is!), you’ll never prevent 100% of the population from doing it or trying to do it, we’re animals that are good at throwing rocks.

    sandbox ,

    Co-operation is in the nature of humankind. Violence will tend to occur when there is competition for resources. We have the technology and philosophy necessary to create a world where everyone can live a comfortable life without any need to compete for food, water, shelter, medicine or education.

    If we work together and prevent people from forming unequal hierarchies, then the few people who still try to impose their will on others can be stopped by the rest of us.

    Kecessa ,

    It’s in our nature just like fear of strangers is and that means our nature is to see people as being either in or out of our group and wanting to protect our group from the other group.

    It’s very nice that you can imagine a utopia but that’s just a dream that will never become true because of our nature.

    sandbox ,

    We’ve proven quite successfully that we are able to overcome our fear of strangers successfully enough to create civilisation. There is no reason that we can’t overcome any part of our nature to achieve a better world. Your beliefs are holding us back - the major thing blocking us from taking decisive action is because people don’t believe that a better world is possible. It is. We just have to be bold, take the opportunity and leave capitalism in the past where it belongs.

    Kecessa ,

    As I already mentioned in another comment, it’s not about capitalism, first Nations didn’t have capitalism before Europeans arrived, it didn’t prevent them from having deadly conflicts and people who wouldn’t follow the rules they had in place.

    echodot ,

    Oh we will be. There is video evidence they can’t really get out of this one.

    What they never really need to do is stop hiring criminals. And when there are warning signs (there are always warning signs, this is never their first offense), they need to be fired, immediately.

    sandbox ,

    If they lose their job, but otherwise don’t suffer any repercussions, would that shock you? What would you propose that we should do, if we can’t get justice through the system?

    echodot ,

    What are you talking about. That hasn’t even been a case yet calm down.

    sandbox ,

    I’m asking you, when this inevitably doesn’t go anywhere, will you care?

    ImpressiveEssay ,

    At least this one deserves consequences… unlike that unfortunate shooting in the states.

    workerONE ,

    I wonder if some people carrying guns see every confrontation as a matter of life and death since they are carrying a deadly weapon that could be used against them if they temporarily lose control in a struggle.

    einkorn ,
    @einkorn@feddit.org avatar

    When you have got a hammer everything looks like a nail.

    JackFrostNCola ,

    I could be wrong but i believe british police dont routinely carry guns

    tenchiken ,

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/568f1937-f659-41f6-ba44-885d52bf6618.webp

    febra ,

    Cops doing cops things.

    twinnie ,

    I’d like to know more context about this whole situation, apparently there was a big kerfuffle and another police officer had to be treated for a broken nose.

    This guy looks like some dumbass kid who got himself over-excited after being given a gun and a badge though. He’s probably set his career back by 10 years after this dumbass move.

    Pirasp ,

    That shouldn’t be a setback of ten years, it should be an automatic attempted manslaughter charge and exclusion from any job that gives immediate power over strangers.

    copd ,

    What is with internet comments being obsessed with attempted manslaughter?

    No this is ABH/GBH at best depending on injuries which should go with an immediate suspension. Attempted manslaughter is not possible to convict

    vzq ,

    Attempted manslaughter is not possible to convict

    Convicting is not the point. Bullshit charges and intimidating maximum sentences are there to force a plea deal and rob defendants of their rights.

    The cops taught us that.

    gnutrino ,

    This happened in the UK where plea deals aren’t really a thing.

    vzq ,

    Got my manchesters mixed up, sorry about that.

    ImpressiveEssay ,

    Lol

    ID411 ,

    I don’t think there any such thing as attempted manslaughter in UK…… mainly because manslaughter is when someone is killed as a result of violence, where there was no intent to kill.

    A kick to the head can be attempted murder, if you can prove the intent was to kill - which is often difficult and especially based on this footage. Its GBH for any man on the street.

    My guess is he’s toast, but won’t see a jail.

    BetaBlake ,

    Attempted manslaughter isn’t really a thing anywhere

    Deceptichum ,
    @Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

    As a poster above said it is in Germany.

    And a quick look for my country shows it at least is in one state of Australia

    classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/…/s270ab.html

    girlfreddy OP ,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Manslaughter is absolutely valid in Canada as well.

    Chee_Koala ,

    wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0042061/2019-04-01 eh, yes it is? NL “Poging tot Doodslag” would like a word.

    Pirasp ,

    Idk about where you live, but “versuchter Totschlag” is very much a thing in Germany. Translates to attempted manslaughter and is in essence an extension to aggravated assault for cases where it should be obvious to the perpetrator, that their actions are significantly likely to cause death.

    Specifically kicking the head of a person who is already on the ground is one of the things that is basically guaranteed to get you charged with that .

    ImpressiveEssay ,

    In fairness… regardless of what the guy did before this.

    The officer deserves to absolutely lose his job. Without doubt.

    The target.tis face down int be ground… not moving… and he stomps his head.

    febra ,

    “Set his career back by 10 years”

    Nah. I’d rather he rots in jail 10 years. I don’t want that guy walking freely around, let alone with a fucking gun and authority.

    wolfylow ,

    Setting his career back 10 years?! I’d expect him to be booted from the force at the very least.

    TimeNaan ,

    What context could possibly make brutally kicking and stomping a man lying on the floor acceptable? It doesn’t matter what happened before, this is supposedly a trained officer in an intervention, not a drunken street brawl.

    Cop should immediately get fired and charged for aggravated bodily assault if there was any justice.

    TimeNaan ,

    JFC that video looked brutal

    girlfreddy OP ,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    As always, ACAB.

    Deceptichum ,
    @Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

    The term originates from Britain after all.

    All Coppers Are Bastards.

    ImpressiveEssay ,

    Disgusting… I hope you get to live in a nation with no police some day.

    Retrograde ,
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    ImpressiveEssay ,

    Wow. Actually im a performer. Musicians and actor. I’m just not American, although I did live there… If that’s where this is coming from.

    I’m Irish. Our police is just one of many public services…

    It would be literally retarde d to draw a line at a profession and say any person int his profession… Is… Anything.

    My mother works in a Garda station. Although she isn’t police herself. would you like to call her a bastard too?

    girlfreddy OP ,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Ok.

    thesporkeffect ,

    Look, if I need someone to show up to a crime scene the day after it happened and shoot my dog, I know who to call.

    Jumuta ,

    bro takes an array of arrays of floats, collapses the floats into booleans, the arrays of booleans into a single boolean each and then collapses the array of booleans into a single boolean

    the amount of data lost in your thought process is crazy, this kinda shit is the real brainrot

    also isn’t “all [type of person] are x” what brought us racism lmao

    girlfreddy OP ,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Bootlick much?

    pyre ,

    i know you tried to sound smart there but your first paragraph is nonsensical, jsyk

    “type of person” is too broad to make your question valid. depends on what “type” means.

    if by type you mean facial features and color of skin, eh sure, why not… even though it’s less that and more about justifying oppression for power and resources.

    but you used it in the context of acab, in which case type means what you do for a living which is entirely different from skin color… so no. you can make such judgments, and it wouldn’t be racism or even have remotely similar thought process (say, as you could point to sexism, homophobia, etc as at least having some parallels in the way of thinking).

    so yes, i can say all cops are bastards, all vulture capitalists are monsters, all landlords are leeches, all billionaires are immoral, all republican politicians are demons…

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