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.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    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.