Police officer suspended arrested man kicked

It's the usual entitled suspects kicking off again.

With 4 officers hospitalised, the scumbags were lucky not to get shot.

In pretty much any other country they would have been. Here, the police will be blamed.

The politics of appeasement. No wonder this country's going down the shitter.

Yes if this had been the US quite likely they’d be dead,the police need backing by the courts and not treated as aunt sallys where being assaulted is par for the course and the only sanctions are fines.


He is from a minority and all the phones come out half a story appears and it goes from there,I wouldn’t like to be a copper today where you are under the microscope are expected to be questioned and insulted or assaulted and say nothing.

Interesting information has come to light ref this incident at Manchester airport.

Footage that's gone viral in which a police officer was seen kicking some chav is the last few seconds of a much longer incident in which four police officers were severely assaulted, including one female officer who was punched in the face and suffered a broken nose. Four chavs apparently assaulted emergency workers, then assaulted police who were called to assist the emergency workers. 

A spokesman for the mob who are demonstrating outside Rochdale police station said demonstrations will continue until all officers involved are fired. 

This is where appeasement has got us. 

Yes it's the usual half story told by our left-wing biased MSM.

The full footage is available online and tells a very different story.

Although there was a kick to the head and another collision between officer's foot and head, there are no reports of serious injuries amongst the people causing the affray.
The broken bones were the police injuries. The people protesting have become accustomed to supporting violence and lawlessness since October last year.
They have been allowed to continue, which empowers them further. We need to have zero tolerance for violence and for their enablers, aiders and abetters.

I think the Police must have felt very threatened that they were being seriously assaulted, even threatening their lives, at which point anything goes to repel the attackers.

Well we do not know yet the circumstances leading up to the kick. The man on the ground tries to get up and is stopped by a kick. He has been told to stay down. He is not at this point cuffed or restrained. There is some talk as regards fear the officers would be disarmed by the assailants and therefore any force is reasonable to ensure that does not happen. If assaults have already occurred and the police have been in danger then neutralising that danger is paramount. The kick was to stop the man rising and was no doubt brought on by what went before. After having a colleague's nose broken and been assaulted in the performance of your duty it would be nice to know what was reasonable force and a kick to prevent risk of further assault seems pretty reasonable to me. If an armed officer tells you to stay down then you stay down. 'Please sir stay down otherwise I will restrain you' does not quite cut it.