Two brothers whose violent arrest at Manchester Airport went viral when bystanders filmed the aftermath on mobile phones will not face a third trial for assaulting an armed policeman.
There was outrage at scenes of PC Zachary Marsden kicking a prone Asian man in the head in July 2024.
Protesters took to the streets holding ‘Black Lives Matter’ placards and calling for the police to be ‘defunded’.
But days later there was a fierce backlash when leaked CCTV showed the violence to which PC Marsden and two female colleagues had been subjected just seconds earlier.
It took 150 days for prosecutors to announce that PC Marsden would
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