Shocking video shows police officer kicking man’s head after ‘officers punched to the ground in violent assault’

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1. Should be arrested for assault. Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a race issue like Twitter is saying it is, just a group of thugs dressed as officers. The female officer looks like she’s having a panic attack, none of them have had proper training, they need to be held accountable.

2. Shouldn’t be a cop if he can’t keep his emotions in check. Cunt needs to be in prison.

3. [Statement on X from Greater Manchester Police](https://x.com/gmpolice/status/1816126944791937485?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet):

   “Officers were called to reports of an altercation between members of the public in Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport.

   Whilst attempting to arrest one of the suspects of the earlier altercation, three officers were subject to a violent assault, where they were punched to the ground.

   A female officer suffered a broken nose and all three were taken to hospital for treatment.

   As the attending officers were firearms officers, there was a clear risk during this assault of their firearms being taken from them.

   Four men were arrested at the scene for affray and assault on emergency service workers.

   We acknowledge the concerns of the conduct within the video, and our Professional Standards Directorate are assessing this.”

4. Police have said that the men attacked the police officers and broke a female officers nose before this.

   Other sources have said the police were harrassing an asian family and pushed an elderly lady before the fight.

   Regardless of either event Stamping on the head of a tazered man who poses no threat is a criminal act

5. ‘As the attending officers were firearms officers, there was a clear risk during this assault of their firearms being taken from them.‘

   Then either don’t carry fucking guns or give them to competent officers who won’t get disarmed by an unarmed men. Because that quote is basically an excuse for armed officers to brutalise civilians.

6. Don’t punch police don’t get kicked in head. Fuck him to be honest

7. I think it’s great that we have reached a state of equality that when a woman is violently assaulted to the ground by a man and her nose broken we care far more about the pleb who got their shit kicked out of them for doing it.

8. Definitely looked like he was ‘trying to take their weapon’ whilst laying on the floor having been tasered..I’m sure the police will perform a in-depth investigation into the officers behaviour and find out they were justified due to ‘fearing for their safety/the safety of others’ or something such nonsense.

9. Let me guess, they’ll let him off without charge while making some half fasted excuse on how they “take abuse very seriously” and “have the public’s best intest at heart”.

10. I’d bet money on the officer seeing prison time for this. The force used wasn’t necessary, reasonable or proportionate.

11. Back in 2016 former England striker Dalian Atkinson was tased by the police, then kicked in the head when on the ground. He died not long afterwards.

    Police should be well aware how dangerous kicks to the head are, and firearms police should be the most well trained, experienced and level headed officers.

    The Atkinson officer was found guilty, so there’s certainly a chance this guy will too. The sentence would of course be lighter as there were no deaths in this case.

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-57495426](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-57495426)

12. >They said they acknowledged concerns about the behaviour, but added that the officers were responding were armed, and there was a risk that their guns could be taken.

    Ok, so, rather than kicking the shit out of someone, maybe they shouldn’t go armed if they’re so poorly trained that they believe an unarmed person is going to be able to take their firearms that easily?

13. If you assault a police officer don’t expect to be treated with kids gloves.

14. If someone’s fighting with armed police then in most countries it would have justified using the gun.

    Let alone in an airport.

    Fuck around, find out, they are lucky they didn’t get far worse.

15. I don’t think the officers actions were justified regardless of what had happened previously. The police shouldn’t be stomping on heads – the guy was restrained on the floor and already been tazed for gods sake keep your emotions in check.

16. I was about to side with the officers until I saw the video. Stamping on a prone persons head is inexcusable. Even if he or she is an arsehole.

17. They said it’s allowed because some female police officer had been attacked by the man.

    Interesting logic, considering a mate of mine had his girlfriend attacked and got 4 years for fighting them of trying to rape her.

    Good old UK, not allowed to defend yourself but police can headstomp a handcuffed person and it’s allowed.

18. [Alex Tiffin on Twitter with some context](https://x.com/RespectIsVital/status/1816125019782574087)

19. It’s both eye opening and disappointing seeing people taking the police response at face value rather than just watching the footage.

    Does it not clearly show the second unarmed man, seated, hands on his head, not causing much of a fuss, get shouted at, thrown to the floor and punched in head by an armed officer?

    There is no context needed for that. There is no excuse for that. It’s excessive force.

    The police do this a lot when it comes to excessive force. They never take responsibility unless the uproar is loud enough. I hope eventually some justice comes.

20. Geez, the amount of people condoning this is mental. Yes, they shouldn’t have been assaulted and to subdue those people violence is expected. But once they’re on the floor and clearly no harm, a boot to the face is massively over the line.

21. That video is outrageous and the officer clearly lost control of himself.

    he is VERY lucky that guy isn’t dead

22. Police officer here with two observations:

    1) It’s very difficult for the officer to justify kicking and stamping some guy in the head who isn’t actively fighting back. I can see an assault conviction and a misconduct hearing incoming

    2) This is another video that is clearly cropped to remove everything that happened beforehand and only show the police’s actions. We can see a ginger female officer who is clearly very distressed (and is reported to have a broken nose) and it appears a blonde female officer has already tasered the lad on the floor. I wonder why this bit has been clipped out of the video and I wonder exactly what happened. It will be difficult to justify the kick/stamp but I wonder if the previous interaction provides at least some mitigating factors?

23. The police shouldn’t be kicking people’s heads in, and I say that for their own benefit. It’s quite easy to go an entire lifetime without coming anywhere close to being stamped on by an armed officer.

24. Why am I not surprised that r/unitedkingdom is defending a police officer stomping on someone’s head?? Add it to the list along with “child poverty is smart politics” and “I don’t care if migrants drown”. Good job lads

25. How do you even escalate things to the point where 3 police officers get punched to the ground…at an airport?!

26. Only utter scum kick/stamp downed people in the head. He should be jailed for assault, alongside those other scrotes.

27. Disgusting that people are trying to justify this. And i wonder how much of the bloodlust here is due to the guy background.

    He was already on the ground and no longer a threat. A kick to the head, and a stomp can kill someone. There was no reason to do that. Frankly it’s attempted murder, the police should be above that.

    Edit: and even punched another guy who was sitting down on the back of his head afterwards.

28. Regardless of the crimes, this is not how the Police should be acting, but it’s more common place than some may like to imagine.

    Reasonable force applies to the public and should apply to the police, at a higher standard imo. If I’m attacked on the street I can defend myself, but the moment I’m stamping on and kicking a person who is no longer deemed a threat, I’m gonna expect to be charged with a crime.

    And if you think this officer hasn’t done this before and wouldn’t do it to you if he was given the chance, you’d be mistaken.

29. He probably would have gotten away with it if it was just the kick in the head, but stomping his head into the ground after that is indefensible and will probably get him fired. A level of force after the aggression the criminal showed is normal, but stomping someone’s head into the ground like that can easily kill them.

    Obviously no sympathy for the criminal. He deserved the beating and more, but we should hold police to higher standards than that.

30. Cop just made the guy who possibly started the fight into a victim. That’s inexcusable.

    The dude possibly started a fight with police, and possibly assaulted them, but you don’t boot him in the head like a mitre football, and then heel stomp him.

    It’s now gone from a slam dunk case of assaulting a police officer, to now he’s probably going to have to be paid out for being assaulted.

    Idiot copper.

31. The people justifying this copper’s behaviour need to ask themselves if they’d feel the same way had the guy getting his head kicked in was white.

    You may think you’re doing a good job of hiding your bias, but you really aren’t.