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
    -47•4 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
      23•4 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
        -24•4 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
          17•4 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.

            • @ieatpillowtags@lemm.eeEnglish
              12•4 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.

                • @ieatpillowtags@lemm.eeEnglish
                  11•4 months ago

                  Reached up for the pot? So you acknowledge she wasn’t holding it then. It’s not like it was a gun, you’d have plenty of warning if she attempted to do something crazy with it (which is not at all clear from the video that she would have).

                  What do you get out of trolling like this?

                  • @petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    11•4 months ago

                    I have no idea.

                    Check their post history, they’ve been arguing about this story in a “totally not racist, I’m very left leaning” kind of way for like 2 days now.

                  • @ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    -12•4 months ago

                    Did you seriously not watch the video? She takes her hands off when they raise guns… They take one step forward and she reaches up for it again

        • @UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1•4 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.