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    Jury shown CCTV of alleged assault on police at Manchester airport

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    2. Arteic on

      Not sure what the defence’s strategy here is? Outright denial isn’t going to work surely?

      Also not sure we should have firearms officers who “can only see at arms length” if their glasses get knocked off!

    3. StepComplete1 on

      Reminder that the CPS had seen this video and the viciousness of the attack, yet hesitated in even prosecuting these guys for months, clearly considering not doing it at all (to ease “community tensions” no doubt).

      Anyone who says we don’t have a 2-tier justice system at every possible level is living in delusional denial at this point. We don’t have a justice system, we have a community tensions management system.

    4. LengthAggravating707 on

      Could the police have handled this better? Yes

      Did they have to try to grab big nose without warning him? Probably not

      Did they have the push big nose’s head down? No

      Did they have to start punching the other one so quickly? No, they could have backed off

      Are the brothers innocent? Nope. Lock em up and get the police some extra training

    5. limeflavoured on

      The fact that this has taken so long for a case where the most anyone is charged with is ABH is quite ridiculous.

    6. Macca80s on

      Unbelievable that those two have the gaul to try and claim self defense. They’d better have the book thrown at them.

      Let’s face it in the States they’d have each gotten a bullet for their actions and refusal to comply.

    9. Only_Quote_Simpsons on

      For everyone saying that the force was unjustified, the brothers had just assaulted a member of the public, the police have no radio cover in that area of the airport (so wished to take the guys outside quickly), the video of the police getting attacked is absolutely brutal and one of the armed officers who got jumped said he could feel his gun shifting away from his holster during the attack.

      I honestly don’t say this often, but I am with the coppers on this one.

    10. usernamerandom56 on

      The BBC, ITV, Sky Mail, Sun, Mirror, Independent, MEN and many, many, many more outlets are reporting on today’s proceedings, and the sickening footage shown in a trial where men hit women with such animal savage they concussed them.

      Would anyone like a guess as to which national newspaper, with strong ties to Manchester, didn’t report any of this ?

      Wonder if they will even report the inevitable outcome in case it spoils their narrative

    11. nabuachaem on

      it was no accident that was released on the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings.

      These guys should have been charged straight away, it’s a clear case of attacking the police. the guy that kicked the dude on the floor should also have been charged.

      If riots had started, then we deal with the riots but this kind of thing needs to be policed like any other incident.

      Without fear or favour.

    12. DodoKputo on

      That “alleged” is doing all the lifting… I suppose the BBC needs to cover their asses after what they did in that Breakfast programme when they paraded these people like heroes

    13. wolfiasty on

      A year later bandit criminals, with all the proofs of their banditery needed, are still walking free.

      Not a two tier system you say ?

    14. Brother-Executor on

      The CPS only prosecuted due to public pressure and overwhelming evidence.

    15. Rhinofishdog on

      The most disturbing thing here was how utterly useless the female officers were. Same thing happened in Germany where a male officer got killed while a the female officers were running to safety.

      Somebody was hired in order to maintain the equal gender split ratio me thinks….

    16. Memes_Haram on

      This video should have been on every news channel the day of the incident to prevent the nonsense narrative being spread that the police officers use of force was “racist” and “unjustified.” When it was so clearly neither.

    17. Unhappy-Preference66 on

      My observations. Police grabbed that guy around the neck. Fight or flight. Bad policing. No indication of deescalation.

      The guy was pretty handy and dropped them pretty easy. Surely our police if they are prepared to be violent should be ready for violence.

      If these guys were one of Yaxley’s lot they would be praised for fighting back against the establishment.

    18. annakarenina66 on

      it looked like the bigger brother only stopped pummelling the officer because he knocked his mum over by accident. if she hadn’t intervened I wonder if he’d have knocked him unconscious or killed him

    19. Spamgrenade on

      The idea that this was some sort of racist attack by the police was buried a few days after the initial story. Some people in this thread are acting like its some sort of divisive race war thing.