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Exclusive: Police launch internal investigation over arrest at Taree, as footage shows officer performing a leg sweep while man is handcuffed

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The “leg sweep” was clearly an unnecessary use of force and the officer should be prosecuted. None of this “we investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent “ shit.

Police need to be held to a higher standard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That guy looks like he'd been waiting for that moment ever since he learned how to do it and just needed to try it on someone much smaller than him so that he could actually pull it off. What a cunt.