I am not saying they are currently, but the thugs behind badges are the sole REASON we have the right to bear arms in America. According to one James Madison, co-writer of the Bill of Rights.

it's crazy because it was in my home town of little old Wigan. You dont expect something like that to happen outside your doorstep. So not only do i have to look out for the trouble makers when i go out, but also the police. I have always had the opinion that police have their hands tied behind their back and that this has been done by design, because it allows the criminals to run the streets, problem-reaction-solution, but then you get police brutality like this which is terrible.
Let me also add this for food for thought. The elites have set the system up by design to fail, they want people knifed in the street, crime going sky high and teachers unable to deal with disruptive students. So why the huge publicity with this? perhaps to get a back lash and give police even less powers?
It's all part of the left wing, right wing paradigm.

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In the video of the OP they state at the very beginning that this was a case of mistaken identity. They thought this was a guy that was harassing paramedics. They guy went to talk to the police and they start moving towards him.

So not only was his identity mistaken he was then charged with 2 accounts of assaulting a police officer. Yeah they really wanted to stick it to him. I can understand the guy was struggling at first (as would I if I knew I was about to be arrested for the wrong reason) but you can clearly see him in the video being still afterward and they just keep on going.

I hope all 3 of those cops are fired.

And for those of you who say "Oh he should have been beaten for being drunk in public etc etc" F**k you guys if alcohol weren't legal and not sold at BARS where you go to get DRUNK then I'm sure this wouldn't have been a problem.

Stop blaming the products of the system rather than the system itself.

i know it's a short post, but welcome to the club. it's nothing new in america, less than 1/2 percent of beatings or abuse of power are reported or seen. happens on a daily basis around here. it'll end one day... maybe in 2012 . lol.

The police and unemployment agency staff in this country all have the same thing in common, they all have people in them that just love their jobs a little bit too much.

Give a monkey power and he will abuse it. Better vetting procedures for public sector job applications plz.

Originally posted by Boogley
In the video of the OP they state at the very beginning that this was a case of mistaken identity. They thought this was a guy that was harassing paramedics. They guy went to talk to the police and they start moving towards him.

So not only was his identity mistaken he was then charged with 2 accounts of assaulting a police officer. Yeah they really wanted to stick it to him. I can understand the guy was struggling at first (as would I if I knew I was about to be arrested for the wrong reason) but you can clearly see him in the video being still afterward and they just keep on going.

I hope all 3 of those cops are fired.

Haha amazing how you've drawn your conclusion from that video, I suppose you know what he was saying to the police and he was just saying that he wanted to buy them all a drink for doing such a sterling job. You only believe he was being spoken to for the reasons claimed because thats what a few tabloids have agreed to go with as their story. To say the police were there looking for a man annoying paramedics is a wild statement considering police will be all over town centre's on fridays and saturday nights anyway.
The video quite clearly shows the guy baiting the officers and obviously trying to get a rise out of them otherwise why did he take a step forward, clearly say something and then turn and run. No doubt he'd been given ample warnings and he'd decided to test the officers to the point he's ended up getting himself arrested. Yeah dont get me wrong, the officer dropping punches on him is bang out of order but to tar every police officer in the Country with the same brush because of what a 'Special Constable' did is wrong, and I also think its very irresponsible of the MSM.

Originally posted by magicmushroom
RCW, No one is saying the Police should not deal with drunks but you said the Police should be able to give them a good thuumping which is not only wrong its against the law pure and simple. The Police do not have the right to beat anyone up even when they are being attacked, they have a right to defend themselves not a right to attck people. It does not matter if a person is being difficult or not, the Police have to remain within the law.

I disagree, Police should be given more rights to use physical force as long as it is closely monitored and is not unneccessary. The video is clearly showing one 'special' officer using unneccessary violence and that sort of force needs to be dealt with severely. Back in the 70's and 80's when police were allowed to use more force you would see less anti social behaviour on friday and saturday nights. If you saw the van crew turn up you knew it was time to behave because they were not gonna mess about giving you 5/6 warnings, it'd be battons out and if you keep that up you'll be on the floor. I'm not saying that was neccessarilly a very ethical approach but it sure worked and it definately kept certain drunk idiots in line who today see a police van approach and see it as a challenge to test the officers approaching.

Banging his head off the road,scraping his face on the road,punching him in the face repeatedly. This is reasonable force? My F'kin ass it is. The police are trained in non violent restraint,they are trained in dealing with pissed up knobheads.There was NO NEED to do this to him. No matter how much of a twat he was being. These 3 coppers need the book thrown at them,hard. And then a couple of bricks.

Banging someone's head into the concrete, while he is already pinned down, could be perceived in court as an attempt at murder, for which someone could serve 3 - 4 years in prison.
If you're not a police man, that is.

Interesting snippet i`ve heard from a serving friend - soldiers are `suggested` to go to town in a group to prevent such action again.

The police in Colchester would never get away with this and they know it they would get there asses handed to them in a way only known by 3 para - so maybe the manchester police need to have a chat with the colchester police how to handle soldiers off duty.

Weak.

I'm tired of all these lame posts of police brutality. Who knows what the guy said to them. Perhaps he said some racial remark to the officer who roughed him up "a lil".

These guy put thier frigging lives on the line everyday. They don't knowthis guys a soldier, and whats that anyhow, this isn't Iraq, it's the streets of England or what have you.

So thay tackle him, and the officers, bounces his head off the ground twice, but really only one good time. Then this guy bites the officer? Are you kidding me.

He deserved some batons, maybe a taze or two.

It's obvious he's struggling to move the entire time. He was drunk.

Oh my gosh did you see his "massive" injuries

Gimme a break, I get razor burn from shaving worse thyan that. This utter junk.

There's always gonna be bad apples in a bunch and real police violence, and corruption, but this here is WEAK, WEAK, WEAK.

Rodney King, and the poor kid who got the broomstick put up his *snip* . Or that other off duty cop in the train station who shot that poor kid for nothing caught on camera. Now that is Police Violence.

those guys lost thier jobs I hope, and did some hard time as well I hope.

These 3, especially the colored officer doing most of the roughing. Will likely get a weeks suspension.

Here's a tip. Don't get drunk and "gesticulate" ,and shout "lord knows what" at police, and you wont get tackled, and bumbep up a little. I hate drunk people acting stupid and tough, and I WISH this video had audio.

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