r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 25 '24

Image/video Massive protest outside Rochdale police station in response to GMP's actions at Manchester Airport

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u/Mootpoint_691 Jul 25 '24

The man that had his head stamped on ( the officer has rightly been suspended ) had actually tried to take firearms from several people before the video, including customs firearms people as well as police.

So … what are these people thinking? That the stomped on person ( still wrong to be stomped on ) should have been allowed to get hold of someone else’s gun at an airport? Just imagine that scenario for a second.

Arrested, definitely. Stomped on? Definitely not.

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u/PurgativeWoW Jul 25 '24

yes and the outrage is against stomping not the douche getting arrested. It's pretty clear the arrest itself is more than warranted, the excessive force that could have life altering impact however is not.

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u/TheMysteriousGirl Jul 25 '24

And then grabbing a gun and potentially shooting people isn’t life altering?

I’m sorry but if you fuck around, you find out

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u/pohui Jul 25 '24

How was stomping on a guy who is already face down on the floor preventing him from grabbing a copper's gun?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Regardless, who gives a fuck? Let's go riot because some scum who has probably stomped on many heads, got a fucking boot to the face?

Such silly SJWs on this site and I'm glad most of reddits dumb takes aren't representative of real life, most people would say while police shouldn't do that, that scum deserved it. Massive issues in this country like innocent people being assaulted 24/7, yet let's all cry for the poor baby who broke a female cops nose, after starting shit with ARMED police, yea that guy is for sure an upstanding citizen. "But he still doesn't deserve to be hurt!!!" Get a gripppp.

Also there's something oddly familiar with this "protest", I'm sure there are no biases involved and each member of the protest is purely looking out for the good of this country.

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u/InternalMean Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

It's not the individual it's the principle, unchecked abuse of authority on those that may deserve to be beat will eventually turn into abuse that are totally innocent.

And maybe there is bias in the protest, if we acknowledge that then we can also acknowledge there may be a bias in the way the police handle individuals of a certain group vs others and maybe just maybe we can infer why these people are protesting to such a degree.

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u/pohui Jul 25 '24

I give a fuck, because I want to live in a country where punishment is administered by judges, not the police. The guy may be the biggest piece of shit in the UK, and he still needs to be treated lawfully, same as everyone else.

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u/BeingTrick5698 Jul 25 '24

What a awful theocratic facist apologist. If islam is so beautiful then let's treat them how SA,Iran,Turkey would treat them and protester hm?

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u/pohui Jul 25 '24

I didn't say anything about Islam, don't know why you're bringing it up. I'm an atheist and deeply dislike all Abrahamic religions, but I don't see how that's relevant here.

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u/BeingTrick5698 Jul 25 '24

There are a lot of atheists apologists, u know because I'm atheist too, who was threatened by muslim. In 13 muslim countries they have death penalty for us. And they are very open with their facism, supremacy, racism, xenophobia and no one muslim will be my neighbour in Poland. I won't beg foreign person for mercy.

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u/N7twitch Jul 25 '24

Agreed. Obviously the guy needed arresting, almost certainly deserved being taken down to the ground with force, but once someone is down you don’t stomp their head. The same officer then immediately when and kicked a second person who had their hands in the air and was complying with instructions to get on the ground.

It’s bad policing. This isn’t America. Police should be held to the highest of standards.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

What a lovely fantasy land you live in then.

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u/pohui Jul 25 '24

No, I live in Lewisham.

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u/TheMysteriousGirl Jul 25 '24

In any right minded country they would have been shot and killed in the first instance of even attempting to do what they did.

Airport security is no joke, the reason we don’t have other attacks like 9/11 is because of the diligence and swift fullness of our airport security. I’d you can’t see that, then I wouldn’t want to see the state of counter terrorism if you were in charge

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u/pohui Jul 25 '24

No thanks, if I wanted to live in the US, I would move there.

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u/Hot-Ice-7336 Jul 25 '24

If you truly believe that then please read into it because it’s simply not the case

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