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.

  • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Co-operation is in the nature of humankind. Violence will tend to occur when there is competition for resources. We have the technology and philosophy necessary to create a world where everyone can live a comfortable life without any need to compete for food, water, shelter, medicine or education.

    If we work together and prevent people from forming unequal hierarchies, then the few people who still try to impose their will on others can be stopped by the rest of us.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      It’s in our nature just like fear of strangers is and that means our nature is to see people as being either in or out of our group and wanting to protect our group from the other group.

      It’s very nice that you can imagine a utopia but that’s just a dream that will never become true because of our nature.

      • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        We’ve proven quite successfully that we are able to overcome our fear of strangers successfully enough to create civilisation. There is no reason that we can’t overcome any part of our nature to achieve a better world. Your beliefs are holding us back - the major thing blocking us from taking decisive action is because people don’t believe that a better world is possible. It is. We just have to be bold, take the opportunity and leave capitalism in the past where it belongs.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          4 months ago

          As I already mentioned in another comment, it’s not about capitalism, first Nations didn’t have capitalism before Europeans arrived, it didn’t prevent them from having deadly conflicts and people who wouldn’t follow the rules they had in place.