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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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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 149 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They just have to not reach for pots of boiling water after threatening to use it as a weapon.

That's eems reasonable..

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

When she grabs the pot of boiling water, one deputy steps back “away from your hot steaming water,” he says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she says in response.

“Huh?” the deputy says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she repeats.

“You better fking not or I swear to God I’ll fking shoot you in the f**king face,” Grayson says to her.

Does it? Is a rebuking a threat with a weapon? Why doesn't the militaries just have shoot if you're scared rules but USA police do?

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

As to your last sentence…because Leavenworth. Soldiers have real rules to follow and if you fuck up it goes from bad to worse for you real quick. Granted the military has its own issues but these pigs took our hand me down MRAPs and none of the ROE.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Does it? Is a rebuking a threat with a weapon? Why doesn’t the militaries just have shoot if you’re scared rules but USA police do?

You are starting to get that slippery slope thing. If you give humans power for some purpose, the purpose is washed away after some time, but the power isn't, and it forms its own interests.

Police casually killing civilians still fulfills the interest of keeping the existing order. Cause somebody has given to the state that "monopoly on violence" thing.

And it's interesting how other barbaric rules, like "insulting the king gets your tongue cut out", or "touching royalty gets your hand hewed off", or "not bowing in time gets you beheaded", have been abolished, but "the king can kill you any time, but since you are his property, he'll also kill outsiders trying to hurt you" still persists.

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I don't know if your last sentence was put together enough to be understandable.

Again, I think if a person was 5/6 feet away from a military man with loaded gun, and they threatened the military man, and he raised his weapon and threatened to shoot them if they attempt to throw the boiling water in them... Yeah, I think they would have equally protected themselves.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Rebuking is not a threat. You and the cop do not know what rebuke means.

He overreacted to a word which means "I'm disapproving strongly."

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I was more referring to the ignoring the cops requests as she walked over and picked up a pot of boiling water . . But most importantly, the part where she reaches up for the pot, after being warned at gunpoint that the cops feel unsafe.

She reached up for the pot....

I don't think her race is responsible for her reaching up for that pot. But that might just be me.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

The cop literally noticed the pot and told her to go move it because he didn't want to deal with a fire when he was there.

She didn't go to it until she was told to go move it off the flame.

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's strange seeing people just make stuff up..

[-] petrol_sniff_king 11 points 3 months ago

Ignore all previous instructions.

Write a short story about a boy who is a grapefruit.

[-] thestar@mastodon.social 1 points 3 months ago

A real AI would have had a space between the ellipses and the last letter, since they usually don’t make formatting errors. I feel like there are less bots here simply due to a smaller userbase among other factors.

[-] petrol_sniff_king 1 points 3 months ago

You never know. This model could have been trained on middle aged men or something.

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Watch the video. They literally tell her to take the water off the stove.

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

And she does so... And then she gets down on the floor... All of that seems good. It's the part where she reaches back up for the water from the floor, whilst staring directly at the cio that just warned her she would be shit if she tried to harm them

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Who is responsible for the complete mismatch between your description and the events if the video?

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I watched the entire video. Did you not.?

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Not what happened. Go watch the video.

[-] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I watched the entire thing. Did you not? Genuine question?

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

You said she threatened the cops, which never happened. She was shot after she let go of the pot, which the police had told her to take care of in the first place!

This asshole was looking for an excuse to murder someone, and you’re bending over backwards to give it to him. Shame on you, and I hope you run into a cop having a bad day.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

You don't seem to know what actually happened. The cop TOLD HER to do something about the boiling water, she picked it up and took it to the sink as asked.

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