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.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16•5 months ago

    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.