Sussex police officer filmed hitting man while holding him back on bus yelling ‘You’re breaking my hand’
- A video shows a police officer hitting a detained man on the head in Sussex
- The man lies on the floor of a bus in Eastbourne with two officers holding his arms
- He complains and says ‘you break my hand’ before a cop hits him
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A shocking video shows a cop attacking a detained man on a bus outside the Arlington Arms pub in Eastbourne yesterday.
The footage, shot from the top of the stairs in a double-decker bus, shows two police officers bringing a man to the ground as he thrusts his arms behind his back.
As he lies face down on the floor of the bus, the man screams in pain and tells the officers, “You hurt my hand, you break my hand.”
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He repeats the statement several times, before yelling ‘you do my damn hand’, whereupon one of the officers hits the man on the head.
After hitting the man, the officer tells the man to stop squeezing him.
The man replied, “You just hit me too, didn’t you?”
And the Sussex police officer replied, ‘Yes, to pinch me.’
The images show how the officer deals a blow to the head of the detained man
After hitting the man, the officer said he did it because the man squeezed him
Sussex Police have confirmed they have launched an investigation following the release of the video on social media.
The police have not yet confirmed in a statement whether the man has been arrested and for what offenses.
“We are aware of this incident which the officer himself brought forward,” Sussex Police said.
A spokesperson for the Sussex Police Department said: “We are training our officers to protect themselves and others with reasonable force and are reviewing this footage, along with the body-worn video captured by the officer of the entire interaction, to determine determine whether further research is needed.’
Anyone with additional footage is requested to contact Sussex Police on ref 538 of 16/07/2022.