Mark White has provided his analysis of the violent attack on three police officers in the moments before a copper kicked a man in the head at Manchester Airport.
White explained that "context is everything" in this situation and last week we knew nothing about what led up to the incident which led to an officer being suspended.
New CCTV footage obtained shows a "very violent attack on three police officers" after they received reports "of a violent assault in and around Manchester Airport."
After pinpointing the suspect, the three police officers approached the man, later identified as 19-year-old Fahir Khan, standing near the ticket machines in a multi-storey car park.
White said: "They need to gain control of that person, so they're up behind them. They then try to get his hands behind his back to cover them, and he's resisting. So you then see the officer grabbing his head and putting his head down.
"At that point, the brother goes in and starts to punch about the male armed officer."
Eamonn Holmes added: "I would look at the police officer and I would say: 'You lost it. You went too far. You lost control.'
"He's still going to find it hard to come out of this. Smelling of roses, isn't he?"
White responded saying: "I'm not prepared to go that far and categorize it as that, because I don't know what that individual officer perceived.
"These two men - we've counted it - were responsible for punching these three officers in and around the head 15 times, 15 separate punches.
"That male officer received at least half a dozen punches to the head. So I don't know what kind of state he was in. Concussed. Confused. He was on the ground at one stage as a female officer finally got a taser shot off, which incapacitated the boy in the blue shorts."
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White continued to explain that there is a "great deal of concern amongst the armed policing unit at Manchester Airport, with some officers deciding that for a while at least, they don't want to carry firearms because of the potential for situations to get out of control.
"And then, with the benefit of hindsight, everybody deciding that you did wrong, making a split-second decision with what you were faced with and now you're facing a potential prosecution."
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said on Friday that the officer who kicked the man in the head had been advised he was under criminal investigation for assault.
A decision is yet to be made on whether to refer the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and whether the officer will face disciplinary proceedings.
Meanwhile, Greater Manchester Police yesterday declined to say why the Rochdale brothers had not been charged.
However, it is understood that charges may take longer due to the publicity of the case.
