Following the mass arrest of 114 people, Nottinghamshire Police have outdone themselves. This time they’re seen repeatedly electrocuting someone with 50,000 volts. They also punch his face a few times for good measure.
This sort of behaviour is perhaps to be expected. Firearms should be entrusted to only the most highly trained officers; not to the grunts on the back of a few days training. Sadly what we have witnessed on the streets of Nottingham is to be expected. The former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced an £8 million expansion in police use of the weapon in March 2009.
An interesting thing emerges in the video: hear how the public react to the police punching the man in the head. They begin to jeer at the sheer thuggery of the police’s brutality. It used to be the case that the public looked towards the police for protection; increasingly people feel they need protection from the police.
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Overkill I think but we live in a Police State.
Looks to me like the cop is trying to give the guy a ‘dead arm’ to cuff him. He’s certainly not being hit on the head/face.
— Comment by Mr Reaction June 16, 2009 @ 11:34 am
have been in a similiar situation it can take four officers to subdue a drunk, although the rain of blows towards the end seem OTT However if we lived in a police state that women in white and the drunk in the hat would not have pushed in so boldly
— Comment by Dennis Webb June 16, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Thanks a lot for your response. I don’t suppose for a second we live in a police state although we are sadly heading in the direction. As for the woman in white, there are brave men and women in every society who stand up to this sort of thing.
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I am the person who recorded this video & handed it in, and i saw everything,what is no seen is that when i first got to where this was the 2 officers were stood talking to the chap,1 stood in front & the other to the side of him,and for no reason that was visable the officer to the side kicked the legs from under him and dropped him onto his back ! where he then started to kick out,he was tasered then for the first time,he then got up & ran with the 2 officers following and still conected to the taser ! the rest is what you see on the video,as far as i saw,the police used violence first ! ask yourselfs this question ? nottingham city centre is full of cctv,why have the police not mentioned this ?
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