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.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I live in Russia, people here generally don’t trust police.

        “Call us when they actually kill you”, beating out confessions, cooperating with crooks, and, of course, possessing enormous persuasion skills when they need you to throw away your report of a crime which they don’t want to deal with.

        There are people good and bad like everywhere else, but the atmosphere while talking to these people is very special.

        • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          You live in Russia… your government jails and kills people it disagrees with… Yeah… if course… fuck Russian police. No shit.