Pictures of a female police officer with a broken nose being shared widely online are from 2020 and not connected to the airport incident
Misinformation is being widely shared on social media after a teenager was kicked in the head by a police officer at Manchester Airport, despite the family involved calling for calm amid growing controversy.The police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct has already spoken to the men shown in the footage, named by the family’s solicitor Akhmed Yakoob as Fahir Amaaz, 19, and his older brother Amaad.
A tweet falsely claiming it shows a female police officer attacked at Manchester Airport has been viewed more than 600,000 times Her force Leicestershire Police shared the story to raise awareness of the impact of assaults on emergency workers but it is now being misused. “And then that individual who was involved in that – or a couple – were followed by cameras through the airport, and then we get to the scene that people have seen, which is in the car park area of Manchester Airport.”Far-right accounts on X have also been sharing video footage of a traffic warden being kicked by a number of young men in 2018, claiming the incident did not receive the same level of media coverage as the Manchester Airport incident.
Bashir was tracked down and was sentenced to nine months in a young offender institute after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm. “As ever, I’m struck by the speed with which US law enforcement agencies seem to release body worn video footage of highly contentious police incidents , while here we are left to rely on bystander video that often only covers part of an incident,” said policing researcher Gavin Hales.
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