Two brothers have been charged over an incident at Manchester airport in England, which sparked protests against the country’s police. Last July, a video sparked controversy at the British airport’s Terminal 2, showing an officer kicking a lying unarmed man (20-year-old Mohammed Amaaz) in the head in an attempt to arrest him and his 25-year-old friend. -his older brother Muhammad Amaad.
investigations
After the footage went viral on social media, authorities initially suspended the officer and suspended him from all duties following a “thorough review of additional information” regarding the incident. However, a few days later the CCTV footage was also made public; The footage revealed that three police officers were brutally attacked by the two brothers before the arrest, leaving one with a broken nose and another collapsed to the ground.
Two brothers have now been charged in connection with the chaos at the airport, but the two police officers investigated over the incident will not face charges, British tabloid The Sun reported. Amaaz, 20, is charged with two offenses of causing bodily harm, one of assaulting an emergency worker and one of common assault. Amaad, 25, is charged with causing actual bodily harm and will appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court alongside his brother on January 16.
new evidence
After the images were published in the summer, protests were held in many parts of England. The brothers said they were threatened and thrown to the ground by a police officer. As a result, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) announced that a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer would be investigated for the assault. The watchdog later said a second police officer would also be investigated following the alleged incident, with two more people arrested shortly afterwards.
In a separate investigation, GMP submitted an “extensive” dossier of evidence that changed its reconstruction of the facts. Police testified that officers were subjected to a “violent” attack while trying to arrest them at the airport. Police were dispatched to Terminal 2 upon a report of a fight between two groups from Doha. The new evidence includes footage of two female police officers being beaten by the suspects while they were on the ground. Ultimately, a total of four people, including Amaaz and his brother, were arrested on suspicion of fighting and assault following the incident and were later released on bail.
Source: Today IT
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