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Manchester Airport: Police filmed stamping and kicking man's head (www.bbc.com)

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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.

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[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 91 points 4 months ago

How can we fight back against the police, when they never face consequences, but we do?

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 149 points 4 months ago

How can we fight back against the police, when they never face consequences, but we do?

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[-] Nurgus@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

Just for context, this is in the UK so the officer WILL be prosecuted and punished accordingly.

It is worth noting that other officers at the scene had a broken nose and other injuries before this happened. It doesn't excuse what he does but there's certainly a lot more to the story here.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

I’m from the UK, and I can’t agree. Most likely, at worst, he will be dismissed from the police force. It is very rare for police constables to face criminal charges, and even rarer for those charges to actually stick.

Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man, was reading the newspaper on the London Underground. The metropolitan police shot him in the head seven times. No officer was held accountable.

Ian Tomlinson, a newsagent, was walking home past a protest. The metropolitan police beat him to death. A constable lost his job, but was found not guilty by the court.

A little kid with mental health issues went up to a metropolitan police constable to ask for help. The cop pepper sprayed and beat the child 30 times with a baton. He was dismissed from the police force, but did not face criminal charges.

And you claim that the officer responsible for this is “fucked”? Dream on. At worst he’ll have to get a real job like the rest of us.

[-] Nurgus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The only one of those I'm familiar with is Menenez and the officers genuinely believed he had explosives. It was a fucked up situation and I do think they probably should have suffered more consequences. But honestly there's room for a little nuance.

British cops are not routinely armed so shooting generally is a LOT rarer.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

If I shot someone 7 times in the head, it wouldn’t matter how many people agreed with me that we all thought it was the devil himself crawling out of a portal to hell, I’d get charged and sentenced for manslaughter.

The police are able to get away with literal murder and people will come out of the woodwork, wringing their hands about all of the nuances of the situation.

No, fuck that, and fuck the police. They’re a legalised criminal gang that exists to be the fist of the ruling class and nothing more. If I could click my fingers right now and make the entire institution no longer exist I’d do it faster than you could blink.

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[-] soycapitan451@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

He had been incorrectly identified as a terrorist and an imminent threat. The fuck up was not the person who fired the gun but whoever gave him the order.

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 4 months ago

But will they really?

Here in Aus at least, 3 cops assaulted an autistic or downs guy in his yard one day. The court ordered them to apologise to the victim and do some bullshit “training”.

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[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

To be fair, while he will see more consequences than would be likely if this had happened in the US, it's still pretty rare for police officers to be successfully prosecuted in the UK. More likely we'll be looking at an IOPC investigation and internal disciplinary procedures rather than criminal prosecution.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago

Oh we will be. There is video evidence they can't really get out of this one.

What they never really need to do is stop hiring criminals. And when there are warning signs (there are always warning signs, this is never their first offense), they need to be fired, immediately.

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

How can we fight back against the police, when they never face consequences, but we do?

Mavics with homemade grenades.

Molotov cocktails (can be dropped from copters too).

Also longbows and crossbows with arrows, rock-solid time-proven tech.

You just have to drop this part

when they never face consequences, but we do?

because something like this exists in every conflict. The defending side usually gets punished for the resistance alone.

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[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 62 points 4 months ago

As always, ACAB.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The term originates from Britain after all.

All Coppers Are Bastards.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In a tragic lack of manners

a person taped a cop to the chair, beat the hell out of them, shocked them with a tazer and repeatedly stomped on their head

and got called a psycho, and sentenced to death.

This cop on the other hand

got punished

for being recorded doing so.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I wonder if some people carrying guns see every confrontation as a matter of life and death since they are carrying a deadly weapon that could be used against them if they temporarily lose control in a struggle.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago

When you have got a hammer everything looks like a nail.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 16 points 4 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.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

This isn't a copypasta, meaning it's an original one.

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[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

JFC that video looked brutal

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