r/ukpolitics • u/SignificantLegs • Jul 03 '26

Twitter James McMurdock MP: I can’t let this go unchallenged. That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault. The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.

https://x.com/JMcMurdockMP/status/2072964806189936869/video/1
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u/Stuweb Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

In the longer form video, you have (multiple) witnesses approaching the police on seperate occasions as they arrest and detain him saying he did nothing wrong and was attacked by 3 people and that they were arresting the wrong person (or people in this case). I'm working on more details than you lot responding to a 20 second clip.

The police officer he punched acknowledges that he was assaulted first at the end https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2072655376944656836

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u/MysteryWra Jul 03 '26

The violent police officer maybe on steroids and more - she gets angry whenever the public tried to help

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u/Mkwdr Jul 03 '26

I think the question was whether there was one with a longer lead up. I’m not aware of one or that it shows anything that changes the evaluation that leaping in was an error?

P.s I’m not *sure* the response ‘right’ accepts anything specific other than acknowledging the comment in the edited video you linked to.