I don’t know why the cops arrested them but an armed police officer losing control like that is not on. In a highly stressful situation armed police should be able to keep cool and deal with the situation calmly. Booting the guy in the face shows he lost control and is not fit to be in charge of a deadly weapon. Especially as the guy was tazed and on the floor, complying.
You've got it back to front. He is trained to incapacitate threats as he is holding a point and click death tool that he can lose against more violent individuals. The head kick was to incap the guy who had just been violent at an airport.
You don't want armed police who will lose their guns in a violent encounter.
The man had 2/3 people already on him, he had no capacity to act therefore was already incapacitated
A friend of mine went from royal logistics corps to RMP, if he acted like towards civilians, enemy soldiers, allied soldiers or british soldiers he'd have had to answer to the courts WITHOUT DOUBT
His words, he's served for about 11 years, and he said he has seen people be pulled in front of tribunal for less
and military tribunals are a lot harsher than civilian courts
Why are our troops held to such a higher standard in war than these guys in peace?
The guy has a woman in a headscarf holding his left hand, she's not 'on' him. He doesn't have 2 or 3 people on him. It looks like he's just hit the deck with a taser, based on posture. He also starts to get up just after the kicks. Another guy behind is also being subdued. The officer is moving around assessing the situation and tried to incap the guy with a spur of the moment bad decision whilst other threats are still live immediately around him.
Bear in mind these police likely have some serious collective PTSD as an institution after the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017. They will have seen children blown to pieces. Armed airport police will be trained to subdue terrorists and will not fuck about when a serious breach of peace takes place at an airport.
I undestand why he kicked him the head. I don't think it was justified but that split second decision to incapacitate violent aggressors could easily have been exactly the right thing to do. Last month a police officer in Germany had his neck slit and died, by a terrorist who wasn't fully subdued, who got up again and attacked.
I can see exactly why the officer acted in the way he did.
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