today heard that mary ellen bettley smith repeatedly struck the former aston villa player with her baton after he d been tasered to the ground. our midlands correspondent navtej johal is in telford what s been the response? dalian atkinson made his name scoring goals in the 1990s, but he died in august 2016 aged just 48. the panel here heard how pc engine and monk and pc mary ellen bettley smith, who were in a relationship at the time, had responded to a 999 call. they arrived outside mr atkinson s father s home to find the ex footballer in what was described as the grip of a psychotic episode. he died after being kicked at least twice in the head by pc monk, who was jailed for manslaughter for eight years in 2021. today the
sir mark rowley, the commission, does have the backing of the home secretary, even when this report comes out, so at least he has that to try and make the change, but i m not sure that he has the trust of the public to police, he doesn t have that level of trust in policing from people any more, and the report i understand is going to be what i m told is a very difficult read, it will be very bad, it will have bad conclusions, and the question is whether the met can save from its own behaviour. whether the met can save from its own behaviour. , ., ~ , ., own behaviour. lucy, thank you, lucy manninu. the former aston villa footballer dalian atkinson died after being tasered, kicked in the head and hit with a baton by police seven years ago. today, a police officer was found guilty of gross misconduct for using excessive force but allowed to keep herjob. mary ellen bettley smith s partner at the time, pc benjamin monk, was jailed for dalian atkinson s manslaughter two years ago. nav
how would you have subdued that individual? that is why we see officers time and again resort to touris tools that don t always work, w have seen this, this individual was tasered, pepper sprayed, kicked and hit with his baton and was still able to run and flee several times, at least twice from what we see now. so we are seeing how these tool are not the answer. sometimes force is needed, but if these officers would have used the force to secure this individual out of the car, none of it would ve happened. he may have been running at that point because he was scare out of his mind. it is not unreasonable seein the video that we are seeing an i m sure that will come up in court. let s bring in the author of war on cops. heather, take us out the pictur
of law, but just from a tactic standpoint, basic police protocol sean, i started off when i was 16 years old as a police explorer. i know protocol, and they broke every rule in the book. sean: you know, geraldo, lj is right. he s crying for his mom at one point. he is literally getting punched and kicked and pepper sprayed and tasered, and there s five cops there. they are supposed to be the trained professionals in the situation. look, he was obviously scared, obviously felt they were being overly aggressive from the get-go, and said so. guys, there s a lot going on here. early on. there is nobody there who even tried to defuse it, and then to watch as one cop just comes walking in, disgusted, and just kicked this kid in the head, not once, but twice. a kick in the head kills people,
in the occupied west bank in years. israel says it was targeting islamicjihad members planning an attack. palestinian groups have said they would retaliate after nine people were killed. president biden has appealed for calm as officials in the us state of tennessee prepare to publish police bodycam video, of officers allegedly beating a black man they had stopped in his car. lawyers for the family of tyree nichols, who was 29 and from memphis, say he was kicked, punched, and tasered. he died three days later. five officers have been charged with second degree murder, as peter bowers reports. another case of alleged police brutality in america, this time in memphis, where 29 year old tyre nichols died three days after he was stopped for alleged reckless driving. his family say he