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[Video] UK police kick suspect of Golders Green stabbing in the head multiple times after restraining him. Met police says it is a reasonable use of force. (streamable.com)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Met police interview on this https://streamable.com/e/e8zv7e

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 17 hours ago

I gotta admit, they stopped kicking him in the head once they had secured the weapon. I kind of think it was reasonable, but do admit it sets a shaky precendence of what we allow the police to do

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think you've got your links muddled. They're both the same interview

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for the heads up I fixed the link in the post

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Innocent until proven guilty hasn't been a thing in the UK for a while yeah

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He was literally running about stabbing people in plain view and was resisting giving up a knife.... Other countries wouldn't have even given him the charity of attempting to disarm him

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ah i didnt see the knife when i first watched it, thought he was just curling up. Looks like a little swiss army knife or something of the sort.

The bystander just going "kill him" is wild tho.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

The guy was being tasered which likely contributed to him grasping the weapon

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago

Seeing someone from your own community just get stabbed, potentially fatally, does stir up strong emotions. I don't think we can just sit here comfortably in our own homes, watching footage of this far away and sit there judging everyone but the attacker