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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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[–] Nurgus 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/30/police-officers-in-england-and-wales-guilty-of-crimes-up-70-per-cent

This is a soft-left wing newspaper that's generally quite critical of the police. The numbers of convictions amd sackings are quite interesting. I think there's a lot of room for improvement but we're starting from a MUCH better place than the US or even Aus.

The 70% increase in convictions does not mean there's an increase in Police bad actors. It's an increase in pursuing convictions against them.

[–] sandbox -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

About a third of police officers in England and Wales – 42,854 – received a public complaint about them. About 71% of the allegations made were serious enough that they involved either death or injury, or if proven they may have resulted in criminal or disciplinary proceedings. However, only 1% were assessed to see whether there was a case to answer, 0.3% were found to have a case to answer, and 0.2% were referred to misconduct proceedings

Read your own fucking source.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but people complain about police all of the time. Just because only 1% of them were assessed does not mean that the others were legitimate. Sometimes it's quite obvious that it is legitimate I really don't think the police are a problem in the UK there's definitely a few individuals that need their heads examining but mostly people aren't afraid of them. Stop putting your own biases on everyone else.

[–] sandbox -2 points 5 months ago

And why do you think it’s acceptable that only 1% of complaints are even so much as looked into? I think you have your own, massive bias here that you’re completely ignoring.