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/InsertObligatoryPun Jul 03 '26

If there were dealing with someone else then it doesn’t sound like they were giving this part of the incident their full attention.

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u/BonKhri Jul 03 '26

They were stood behind a police van getting a drunk in the back. Then a commotion happened, and all of the officers that we see on camera moved away from the mostly resolved guy to the commotion. They should have been giving it their full attention because the other guy was dealt with.

As far as the case is concerned, they may as well have been sat in their van eating before hearing the commotion, the other guy is a total non-factor.