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.

  • zazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Right, I’m sure IRA supporters definitely consider the polis a public service…

    • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Are you a boomer? Are you referring to our politics in the early 90s!?

      Are you referring to the Ira by name that fought for our independence, of the IRA by name of the terrorist organisation in the north during the troubles?

      Do you even realise how rude this question is?

      • zazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        While I appreciate your enthusiasm for the police force in Ireland (an emotion I’m sure isn’t shared by everyone) I feel that it glosses over the intense distrust of other forces, like the PSNI (incorporating the RUC) in Northern Ireland, and the negative effects of state beneficial clique formations. (eg. union constables against anti-union communities)

        So while you might see the Garda Síochána as a step in the right direction for a liberated Ireland - I think it’s important to never forget the main purpose of the polis - to maintain monopoly on violence.

        So while the Gardaí may appear to work for you right now - I just hope you never have to be on the “wrong” side of the state and have to feel the force of “legitimate” violence used against you, especially when standing with your community against capitalist sponsored state oppression (eg Shell to Sea)

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Well, I’ve never even been in Ireland, but my sister has given me some unwanted lectures about the connection between the two.

        I’d personally say that through the prism of Armenian issues, the latter was friends with ASALA, while “respectable” Irish politicians from time to time say savage cannibalistic shit on those and specifically on Artsakh.

        So of course the latter is better from my PoV and I don’t care about any other, just as everyone else (though pretending not to).