Posted on 08/11/2026 7:59:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A stunned British man was set upon by police in broad daylight in Manchester city centre after simply walking along with a baseball bat he’d just bought – still sealed in its factory packaging.
Shocking footage that has gone viral shows the scene unfolding near a Barclays branch, with a lone officer first grabbing the man before the confrontation spirals into a chaotic scuffle involving multiple officers, motorcycle units and a police van.
The bat is clearly brand new, plastic intact. Owning one is perfectly legal. Buying one from a shop is perfectly legal. Walking home with your own newly purchased sporting goods is not a crime. The man had broken no laws.
Yet Greater Manchester Police treated him like a public menace. One officer moves in aggressively. The man resists the over-the-top intervention. What follows is a prolonged, clumsy struggle that lays bare the state of modern British policing.
The initial officer struggles visibly to control a single average bloke who isn’t even swinging the bat or attacking anyone. He can’t take him down cleanly. He can’t get the cuffs on. Backup is called. More officers pile in. The man is eventually forced to the ground amid a growing crowd of onlookers. Pepper spray is reportedly used. A van arrives to cart him away.
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Same problem here in my hapless country.
Journalists have more power these days than governments have. This goes so far as that they have the power of life or death of someone who has run afoul of them.
They haven’t been called „the killers without guns“ for nothing. I consider that an appropriate term.
and to think, we are (... ...) this close to solving it!! All it would take is just 2 or 3 to disappear, and you wouldnt believe how fast things would change...
Please add me to this list
I bet ! ;)
Will do, Fai Mao!
The bystanders are taking a chance even to mock those disgraceful coppers. But good for them.
I call it UKistan.
Absolutely correct.
Behead the snake, and its body will die, too.
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