This is the shocking moment a female police officer drags a rough sleeper across the ground and appears to stamp on his stomach.
The video, obtained by the BBC, shows a female Greater Manchester Police officer pulling the man’s sleeping bag across the street with him still in it.
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She then grabs the man by the arms in an attempt to lift him off the floor before appearing to deliberately stamp on his chest in distressing scenes that took place last September outside Manchester Town Hall.
The 31-year-old man, who is a refugee from Sudan, was injured following the horrific incident and later developed a fever and had blood in his urine.
GMP said the officer’s actions ‘fell below the standard we expect’ and she had been ‘dealt with’ following the incident, which homeless charity Crisis described as ‘appalling and dehumanising’.
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Speaking to the BBC, the 31-year-old said has been given the right to remain UK and has been living here for the past three years.
He explained that he was rough sleeping innext to Manchester Town Hall with a group of other homeless refugees and were usually woken up each morning by council officials. But on this occasion it was a police officer.
The Sudanese man said: ‘We told them we had nowhere to go and that it was very cold. I was telling her I need to sleep.
‘But she stamped on my stomach with her foot. It caused me problems – I had a fever and in the following hours I had blood in my urine.’
The man said the force has now apologised to him and he has now found accommodation.
