Manchester Airport head-kicking: 'He's a hero,' says former top cop 

Looking at all the footage I totally agree with the caller. You DO NOT attack emergency workers especially those with guns.

LBC is a joke 😂

I'd personally prefer that our armed police have more discipline than street fighters.

Great Caller who understands the real world.

Obviously, you dont go attacking the police, but the police are supposed to be in control when detaining someone. They have training for it. Kicking and stamping on someones head is not part of that training. The officer was definitely out of control. I'm surprised non of his colleagues went to stop him. Acting like that brings them down to the level of the thugs, whereas they are supposed to be upholding the law.

I think the policeman wasn't in control of his actions. After kicking the guy in the head and stamping on him, he went over to a guy sat on a chair with his hands behind his head. He told him to kneel which he went to do, then proceeded to stamp on that man's leg and then hit him in the head (all whilst the man had his hands on his head). That's not right.

That new footage completely neutered all naysayers.

A man in charge of a lethal weapon needs to be able to control himself

Do you Think it is possible for the Police to stop violent people with a bouquet of flowers !!!

I think it's bad they have only now released more footage, most idiots have already made their minds up after the first clip, none of us have seen the body cam footage either and people are going crazy! Stay clam until all the facts are available please

The police aren’t there to street fight. They are trained and there to de escalate. When he kicked the guy he was already detained and on the floor. There’s self defence and then there’s possibly delivering a fatal boot to the head while someone is already on the floor. These guys if they attacked police deserve to be punished and sentenced, booting someone in the face and then stomping on their head is not ok regardless of the situation.

People who say stuff like that are the first to whine when they are the ones being policed.

Only LBC would support garbage over a police officer.

He was a hero. He was in a flight of fight state and we cannot have armed police attacked in this way. They were fighting for their lives. People are so naive.

This caller couldn’t fight his way out of a pizza box 😂

My Father raised me to believe that you fight your corner if you have to, but only a coward/bully kicks somebody when they are down/ on the ground, and such an action would bring eternal shame on the person who did it and embarass the family. So if that kind of behaviour is beyond the pale for the average person it should certainly be a crime for a police officer to do it. But I guess Im fluffy and naive.

The 'get out' clause for the police is the term "reasonable force". That's they way this will be played out. Nobody cares about the wrong that was done. The guy was on the floor submitting, why did their training not decide what should be done?

Can’t say that to soft leftie.Wasting your time there mate.

The situation was in control before the kicks. The kicks were unnecessary and should be questioned. It is perfectly acceptable to say what the guys did to the Police was wrong and should be punished, and to also point out the reckless behaviour of the officer who did the kicking; these two beliefs ate not mutually exclusive.

Caller is 100% correct 👏

The caller is absolutely right, the violent thugs who attacked me police may well have been terrorists.

You're a police officer, a professional, and you're not a street fighter. After the tazer was discharged, you arrest your prisoner, you don't go in and kick the guy in the head when he's down.

The guy was lying flat out on the ground with not one but TWO TASERS attached to him, he was going nowhere. That police officer was far too emotional to be in that job.

Being an armed officer mean you have more training than a standard police officer I wonder if they give them psychological evaluations as well?

This caller has been in many many violent street fights? I assume he means in his dreams 😂

Even this caller admits what the officer did was a “nasty thing”

Its a safe bet to disregard what comes next after someone tells you they have been in many street fights.

We not had hero's in the police for many years

Spoken by someone who knows absolutely nothing about controlling another person in a dangerous situation. The person was already restrained, there was absolutely no need to Stomp his head in and pointlessly risk his life

You're not defending yourself once someone is in handcuffs and on the deck, fhe officer became a criminal at that point his boot touched the mans head.

The officer did go too far. But in saying that, he had just been attacked by two adult men, and two of his female colleagues had been attacked and hit to the ground by an excuse of a man. Whatever country you are in, you have to abide by their rules. If this had happened in their country, they probably would not have left there alive.

The first police officer who threw the first punch has put all of his colleagues in danger. It was an unnecessary cause of action. If he hadn’t done this, this situation could’ve been handled much easier. It provoked and gave reason for a response from both the man who was attacked (he wasn’t being arrested, so this would be self defence) and the man who was being arrested. It got out of hand and the police are supposed to be trained to avoid causing such escalated situations. This video doesn’t exactly help them here. CPS may accept such a case to go to court, but it will be aware that it can easily lose this case as the aggressors were the police as they threw the first punch and they had an officer kicking a man and stomping him whilst he had already been neutralised. The same officer then went and kicked the other man who had already sat down with his hands on his head. It will be very tough for the police to explain why this force was used. The officer who kicked and stomped the head of someone who’s already been tasered has, without doubt, used excessive force. A taser is used to neutralise someone, physically assaulting them afterwards is beyond unnecessary, let alone kicking them on the face and stomping the back of their heads. It is both cowardly and brutal. That specific officer is suspended and a criminal investigation is underway, however I don’t see him being sacked. What is more likely to happen is that once this story dies down, he’ll be put behind a desk for about a year, with a review of bringing him back out (if he is liked by his senior staff).

Them coppers had fire arms tasers and pepper spray so to get themselves in that situation was totally unprofressional and they should be either retrained or kicked out.if this is the standard of policing in this country then it is very worrying indeed.

A boxer in a street fight gets in more trouble than a layman due to training. Police are trained for restraint so they need to use it. Not stamp on someone's head EVER

I initially was saying.. "he can't kick a man in the head like that". But having watched the blurred video, I'm not convinced now, his INTENT was to kick him in the head. I think he was stomping on his hand to get something out of the man's hand... who had been delivering boxing punches to FEMALE Police Officer. I'm not even convinced the Policeman actually made contact with the man's head. It looks like it was two kicks to his hand, which was near his head. And, let's not lose sight of the WOMAN who has a broken nose, through being PUNCHED repeatedly by a strong, fit, young man. HE is no victim.

The hero!? He was out of control, the man on the ground was incapacitated by the taser and posed no threat

If these people had done nothing wrong and complied with the police, we would not be having this conversation….what a wpc gets her nose broken in 3 places..

Police came under attack and defended themselves.

The guy was neutralised from being tasered. There was next to no need to kick and stamp his head in. That officer is no different to those knuckle draggers who started swinging punches.

Why kick him once he’s already under control. It simply unprofessional and horrible optics. Stop defending sloppy police work.

The chap on the ground was probably a doctor or a lawyer, right?? 😂😂😂

4 years ago I was sleeping with my family upstairs and during the night I thief broke the door with a screwdriver and stole a lot of things from downstairs while we were sleeping. Next day the police told me that I was lucky that I didn't hear anything to come downstairs because I was going to jail if I was aggressive to the thief. So what we talk about here?

The police were violently attacked, a female officer sustains a broken nose, and the male officer came under attack, the male officer kicked him in the head-so what?, seriously, so what, after what they dished out, they cannot complain at all.

The officer did the special forces double tap procedure. Only with his foot and not bullets. Just because hes down doesn't mean he can't attack again, especially after taking the officer by surprise beforehand.

See how you would behave after someone punched you in your head repeatedly then his brother gave a sucker punch from behind straight after, I think most people would want some retaliation In self defence! A couple for light kicks were nothing compared to what that officer endured... If you think otherwise you are part of the problem in the UK right now!!

Completely agree with the caller

If a security guard did that, he would already have his p45 by now. They face situations like that every Saturday.

Well said. What’s ironic is when a snowflake is robbed or assaulted they want the death penalty brought back.

100% right

I know Kevin Hurley well …he talks common sense and has experience of such events from a long exemplary police career

The disgusting defenses of this act is the reason police Brutality still exist .. The perspective he's speaking of is it happened to "them", it won't happen to me

Well said mate. Having seen the full footage now of the whole incident I urge all MSM to show it in full

Gammon

Spoken like a true copper

Kicking someone on the head after he has been tasered and on the ground...what a coward police officer

absolute bs, that officer caused the whole shitshow to begin with, didn't clear the area before attempting the arrest which is why that brawl even kicked off and then kicked a suspect who at that moment had stopped resisting and was on the ground, he wasn't fighting the police at that point.

The caller is 100% correct.

i wonder what defence these people and police have for spraying a bystander and arresting him forcefully for simply recording. since when was that a crime?

Ive seen the video the police where not heroes at all

The caller is 100 percent correct

I disagree with the caller. The policeman overdid it.

The ‘boy’ in green attacked the officer from behind and attempted to take is side-arm which can clearly be seen when the boy is tased. As he is tased he flips something black under his belly, having been wrestling with the side-arm side of the Officer…

“Many violent street fight.” Actual street fight count: 0

The male officer that got punched several times was still more capable than the 2 female officers put together. Begs the question whether we should just have more male officers

Just imagine the victim was white and the out of control police officer was brown or black 😊 you don’t have to tell me😂 you know what will be your reaction enjoy

If the police officer did the same thing to a detainee in the recent Southport riot, how would we judge that officer🤔

If it wa the other way around the caller would be calling for justice no? 😊

Should not mess with the police, end of.

The badge and authority gives them courage they are cowards .. they are not heroes they are public servants

First off, the cop who kicked the man on the floor does need to be suspended. The man was subdued on the floor with hands behind his back, and the kick and stamp were delivered in anger. The cop lost control in an airport environment where cops shouldn't lose control, no matter what the circumstances. Secondly, the two men who attacked the police should be charged and jailed as they absolutely did attack the police and injured them. It's noticeable how nobody seems interested in the police woman who suffered a broken nose. This should be done by the book. The cop suspended, the men charged and jailed.

Having watched the video I feel less sympathy for the Police. They approached the suspect from behind and grabbed him, not very effectively at that, and apparently without explaining he was under arrest. The older brother protests the manner by physically inserting himself into the situation whereupon The Punisher punches him in the face, infuriating the younger brother who then goes berserk. The escalation was likely avoidable.

See the whole video before you condemn the officer

A detestable example of freedom of speech .

Finally, somebody who knows what he’s talking about

Anyone remember what happened to the police officer that stamped on Dalian Atkinsons head, in an eerily similar situation to this case? Yup that officer was given 8 years for manslaughter

We should not be engaging in speculation until all the evidence and facts are made available.

The police kicked people who where on the ground incapped. They lost their temper. They should get in trouble for loosing their temper not rewarded.

It’s that mindset that this country needs desperately and it’s slowly coming back.

Totally agree

So fed up of people who’ve never been in a violent confrontation giving their opinion on this. Bunch of clueless adult children. Sad.

The caller is bang on !

Respect Police Respect institutions Stay peaceful

Uhmmmmm, police are supposed to be fighting?

Our police are paid to protect , let them do their job ! I’d rather the police acted like he did than dress in rainbow gear Dancing !

Quite right caller!! This presenter clearly didn’t like to hear your perspective or the truth for that matter. I’m pretty sure the L in LBC now stands for ‘Lefty’ 🙄

It's an International Airport. You do not let it 'blow over' And yes I've worked T2, also SIA in Central London, I was at London Bridge. You deal or you die.

The caller has been in many street fights, let’s call it. He’s concussed.

The officer who kicked the man in the head already had the man cuffed and lying face down on the floor. No need to continue kicking the man. The police officer lost self control.

ITS VERY SIMPLE THE GUY THAT KICKED THE GUY IN THE FACE WHEN THE GUY HAD BEEN TAZERED AND WAS FACE DOWN THEN STOMPED ON HIS HEAD IS A CRIMINAL !!!

What a joker of a caller. He’s the reason why England is so hated the world over, completely oblivious to objective reasoning and biased beyond belief.

The gentleman is absolutely right. I wonder if he went to university ...

No excuse if the victim poses no threat to the officer. Seeing MPs encouraging violent conduct is absurd!

This is why we are in the state we are in this country.

It looked to me as tho his female colleague who fired the Taser put an end to the attack. The officer who kicked and stamped on the assailant’s head appeared to do so after he was no longer a threat. We’ll have to await the findings of the enquiry for the definitive version of events.

LBC regrets having this intelligent man on! 😂

Saved his colleagues from the handcuffed man on the floor? Get a grip

Never kick a man when he's down,especially inthe face when you're a Police officer, kicking in the face is not part of training and therefore the officer is acting out of control.

Excellent caller.

This lads never thrown a punch in his life

The caller speaks no lies. We live in a naïve world and we are seeing the consequences now.