Police officer gets final written warning after he was filmed knocking 15-year-old girl to the ground with ‘big flying kick’

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  2. Watching the video they were playing a pretty serious game that was likely to invite pretty serious consequences. Perhaps a rugby tackle would have been better, but he certainly stopped the girl who was actively assaulting a police officer and stopping him making an arrest.

  3. with the scaffold poles and that bit of step wall that could have ended with fatal head injury.

    the hell was that girl thinking trying to play pinchy-slappy in that situation?

    stupidity from both officer and girl.

  4. I’ll be the first to criticise the police when they deserve it but I honestly have very little problem with what he did, you don’t assault an officer making a lawful arrest and expect not to be laid out.

  9. Seems excessive, sure she was interfering with an arrest, but a kick into the stomach feels exercising for someone who is just interfering by pulling and pushing.

  10. So I read the comments before I watch the video, I was expecting a full on brawl, people are talking like she was laying into the officers trying to make an arrest, this is not justified at all, if you are a Police officer you should be able to restrain a 15 year old girl without having to come in like Jackie Chan.

    I don’t think he should lose his job though, the final warning seems appropriate.

  13. I dgaf what the other person is doing, your job as a police officer is to enforce the law and descalate situations, doing a “big flying kick” is not descalating the problem, and shes fucking 15. If you cant arrest someone without resorting to almost breaking their ribs or harming them you’re a shitty police officer.

  14. Comments are a cesspit of internet fuckwits who’ve never been in a scrap in their lives. Just shut the fuck up for crying out loud.

  16. i watched this video, the guy who was initially trying to make the arrest was a honestly extremely patient and restrained, very professional. then the second guy literally runs into frame and kicks a teenager who is significantly smaller than him to the ground. which seems like an extremely disproportionate amount of force, and i very much doubt that they are trained or allowed to do that. some of the comments here are vile. just because you’re resisting arrest it doesn’t mean you deserve to be beaten up, that’s exactly the kind of thing people say to justify police brutality in the US. if you want to claim that our police are more civilised then don’t defend them when they do this shit.

  18. Who on earth would be a police officer nowadays? This girl deserved everything she got. The chap was defending his colleague.

  22. Lol people ITT think it’s ok for a police officer to assault someone back, because law enforcement is based on feelings.

  23. Not one to defend police, but she was assaulting an officer.

    Probably wasn’t quite the right way to stop the assault, but I assume that’s why he wasn’t sacked

  26. Surprised he even got a written warning, but surely he should be struck off instantly for this. a 15 year old girl. If that was my 15 year old girl he’d be getting his own flying kick.

    Edit: sure downvote me, I guess you lot would just put up with it?

  27. They were assaulting a police officer! I think this was justified, and the police shouldn’t have to be so soft on criminals.

  28. Reminds me of an episode of ultimate force where they’re on trial for a botched operation. One of the soldiers says something like “we have to make snap decisions in a split second under immense pressure…you get weeks to pick these decisions apart and analyse them”

  29. Delusional, shouldn’t have faced any disciplinary action. Since when is it acceptable to assault a police officer? Society is fucked. Justified all day long

  30. This sub: “Teenagers are adult and sensible enough to vote”

    Also this sub: “violent 15 year old girl is a child and shouldn’t be treated like an adult”

    So, which is it?

  32. Ridiculous decision by a disciplinary panel of people who have clearly never been in a fight before. Why would you join the police if this is the way they treat you?

  33. This thread – teenager pulling at a mans arm is assault she deserves everything she gets.

    Adult in a professional role doing a flying kick at a teenager – Totally fine.

    Why are you expecting a better standard of behaviour from a teenager than an adult copper who is paid to deal with the public?

    Teachers deal with worse on a daily basis, are they also allowed to go all Kung Fu on teenagers?

    Would he have done that to a man of similar size to himself?

    Some of you have a really low bar for what you expect coppers to tolerate. They’re not paid vigilantes for fucks sake

  35. Wasn’t a flying kick at all. A basic heavy footed push kick. Did its job. If she was going as she was told, she wouldn’t get kicked. Simple as that. Police are unarmed, the public might be. If your getting wrongfully arrested, sort it out at the station and file a complaint.

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