[mickthinks]

This is a serious piece of US-cop-type shit going down in Britain :-(

Dalian Atkinson's head was kicked like a football by police officer, murder trial told | The Guardian

From the link

... concerned neighbours had called police at about 1.30am, with Atkinson shouting and his behaviour being described as bizarre and erratic. Monk had used a Taser stun gun on Atkinson twice without any obvious effect. The former footballer had smashed a pane of glass and had been heard to shout that he was the Messiah and could not be hurt. [...]

Healy said both officers would later say they had feared for their lives, and were so scared that they had at one point run away from the male, before tackling him. “At least two kicks were delivered by [PC Monk] to Dalian Atkinson’s forehead with enough force to leave the imprints of the pattern of the laces from the top of his boot on two separate areas of Mr Atkinson’s forehead.

“A number of neighbours living in Meadow Close witnessed this attack. Their view was that once Dalian Atkinson had fallen to the ground he was unresponsive and still. He was no longer posing any threat to the officers. Nonetheless the two officers set about him.”