Following the release of social media footage showing a suspect being stamped on and kicked in the head at Manchester Airport, a police officer has been suspended. Following the release of the video, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) stated earlier that it comprehends the “massive feeling of concern and worry that people feel.”
In the footage, a man is shown lying face down on the ground, a lady kneeling next to him, and an officer using a Taser seems to kick and then stamp on the man’s head. The cop also struck a second man. According to the GMP, police had shown up at airport Terminal 2 with the intention of detaining a man for possible assault. They added that two other policemen were forced to the ground and sustained injuries that needed to be treated in a hospital, and that a female officer later sustained a fractured nose. Four individuals were detained at the scene for affray and assaulting emergency service personnel, according to GMP.
On Wednesday night, some 200 protestors gathered in front of Rochdale Police Station; some of them yelled, “GMP shame on you!” According to police, the protest was over “without incident”. Tuesday night at 8:25 p.m., GMP was responding to reports of an assault at Terminal 2 when the video was taken. According to the force, there was a “clear risk” that officers carrying weapons would have their rifles taken from them, and three policemen were hurt in the ensuing struggle.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) issued the following statement this morning, following the suspension of an officer over the video: “After a thorough review of additional information that has come to light regarding an incident at Manchester Airport on Tuesday evening, Greater Manchester Police has suspended a police officer from all duties.”
According to Paul Waugh, the Rochdale Labour and Co-Operative MP, the man who was arrested and stamped on in the “shocking and disturbing” video is a native of the town. He continued by saying he had spoken with the man’s family the previous evening and would be seeing them in person today. “The video footage of a Greater Manchester police officer kicking and stamping on a man in Manchester Airport is truly shocking and disturbing,” Mr. Waugh wrote on X this morning.
Moreover, the two individuals who were detained in connection with the violence at Manchester Airport have been freed from Cheadle police station in Stockport, according to Akhmed Yakoob, their attorney. Mr. Yakoob went on, “They had to find their own way to the hospital after that, but the police should have taken them there in the first place because they had head injuries. Nevertheless they made their own way and now I’ve documented their injuries and we are headed to Rochdale Police station to make a formal complaint of assault and wounding against the police officers.”
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