Video appearing to show a police officer kick a man at Manchester Airport has been shared online.

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.

  • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    2 months ago

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

    That’s eems reasonable…

    • lanolinoil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      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?

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        As to your last sentence…because Leavenworth. Soldiers have real rules to follow and if you fuck up it goes from bad to worse for you real quick. Granted the military has its own issues but these pigs took our hand me down MRAPs and none of the ROE.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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?

        You are starting to get that slippery slope thing. If you give humans power for some purpose, the purpose is washed away after some time, but the power isn’t, and it forms its own interests.

        Police casually killing civilians still fulfills the interest of keeping the existing order. Cause somebody has given to the state that “monopoly on violence” thing.

        And it’s interesting how other barbaric rules, like “insulting the king gets your tongue cut out”, or “touching royalty gets your hand hewed off”, or “not bowing in time gets you beheaded”, have been abolished, but “the king can kill you any time, but since you are his property, he’ll also kill outsiders trying to hurt you” still persists.

      • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        242·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          2 months ago

          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.”

          • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            113·
            2 months ago

            I was more referring to the ignoring the cops requests as she walked over and picked up a pot of boiling water . . But most importantly, the part where she reaches up for the pot, after being warned at gunpoint that the cops feel unsafe.

            She reached up for the pot…

            I don’t think her race is responsible for her reaching up for that pot. But that might just be me.

            • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
              151·
              2 months ago

              The cop literally noticed the pot and told her to go move it because he didn’t want to deal with a fire when he was there.

              She didn’t go to it until she was told to go move it off the flame.

            • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
              12·
              2 months ago

              Who is responsible for the complete mismatch between your description and the events if the video?

                • ieatpillowtags@lemm.eeEnglish
                  10·
                  2 months ago

                  You said she threatened the cops, which never happened. She was shot after she let go of the pot, which the police had told her to take care of in the first place!

                  This asshole was looking for an excuse to murder someone, and you’re bending over backwards to give it to him. Shame on you, and I hope you run into a cop having a bad day.

            • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Why is any cop playing judge, jury, an executioner?

              Even if she was to throw boiling water his way, which she was clearly trying to protect her head when the gun came up, it doesn’t warrent deadly force. Yes the cop would be in pain and scarred, but that’s the threat he signed up for being an officer.

              Anytime the police kill someone it’s a gross overstep of power regardless of race, age, mental capacity, drug use, financial situation, or any other box you want to put a victim in. You can make a case for if there’s actual shots fired at the officers, but still a cops job is to bring people in so that can properly pay for their crimes.

              So, again, even if she was about to throw that water 6+ feet over a counter to hurt him, that officer grossly misjudged the situation and made himself look like the biggest coward by not only drawing his gun but firing.

              • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
                117·
                2 months ago

                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?