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stu in nottingham
16-06-2009, 08:56 AM
This happened in a busy major thoroughfare of Nottingham on Sunday evening. The arrested man had apparently been involved at an incident at a nearby pub or club.

Here we see four police officers attempting to restrain the man before the taser was used.

Interesting to note the officer on the right giving the now completely powerless man a good socking with his fists. No wonder the crowd were 'remonstrating'.

Police double-Taser arrest probed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/8101763.stm)
Wembley67
16-06-2009, 11:42 AM
Maybe a bit OTT with the punch but the police can't seem to do a thing these days...maybe the guy on the deck was a hearts fan.
stu in nottingham
16-06-2009, 11:56 AM
Maybe a bit OTT with the punch but the police can't seem to do a thing these days...maybe the guy on the deck was a hearts fan.

I dunno mate. Why keep hammering away at a guy (erse though he may be) who's just had two dunts of 50,00 volts in him. It's a series of punches to a pretty well motionless guy with four cops on him. Seems to me like the cop is too pumped up to control himself.

If he's a Hearts fan then that's obviously fair enough.
Wembley67
16-06-2009, 12:20 PM
I dunno mate. Why keep hammering away at a guy (erse though he may be) who's just had two dunts of 50,00 volts in him. It's a series of punches to a pretty well motionless guy with four cops on him. Seems to me like the cop is too pumped up to control himself.

If he's a Hearts fan then that's obviously fair enough.

It was a bloody stupid thing to do and as you say with 4 cops on him it's not like he was posing a threat, I'm sure the police will come out and defend him but is what he did really defendable?

The whole giving police more power is for a different thread altogether :greengrin
PC Stamp
22-06-2009, 10:51 PM
That is nothing more than assault. There is no need whatsoever for that "officer" to be laying in to the guy like that. High time that these hard men Polis were taken to the cleaners when evidence like that is presented.

Wonder if he'd be so brave if tackling a real criminal on his own? :hmmm:

Similarities with the thread posted on another forum about asking a Polisman for his number and it's high time this sort of behaviour from some of the so called upholders of law and order was dealt with severely unless someone changed the definition of reasonable force?