Police reviewing 'brutal' arrest caught on CCTV

A constabulary unit said it was reviewing CCTV footage aft a pupil who was arrested claimed helium was repeatedly assaulted by an officer.

Northamptonshire Police said the antheral was questioned successful narration to cause proviso offences but was released without charge.

The pupil told the BBC helium had stopped to springiness alteration to a stateless idiosyncratic erstwhile a antheral successful a hoodie, who helium aboriginal realised was a constabulary officer, ran towards him.

The incidental was filmed by a friend, and appeared to amusement him being deed respective times portion connected the ground.

He has made a ceremonial ailment and said the serviceman should beryllium disciplined.

As archetypal reported by The Shade Borough, the 22-year-old student, known arsenic Samuel, said helium was walking down Northampton's Barrack Road connected 8 August erstwhile helium stopped to springiness alteration to a stateless idiosyncratic helium had met before.

He said: "As I was walking off, I conscionable felt thing walking towards me. It was a achromatic antheral successful a achromatic hoodie.

"I admit, I did run, but I stopped due to the fact that I realised it was a policeman and apologised.

"So I'm reasoning I'm conscionable going to beryllium arrested oregon whatever, but I was hit, and hit, and hit, and I was reasoning 'this is unbelievable'."

He said helium was "smashed towards a woody gate", earlier losing his equilibrium and falling to the floor, wherever helium alleged helium was beaten up.

Northamptonshire Police said they were alert of the CCTV footage and were talking to Samuel to sermon his concerns.

The unit added the incidental was being reviewed internally, including assessments of officers’ body-worn cameras.

They said the halt was made aft a idiosyncratic was seen to speech a package, which was suspected to beryllium related to imaginable drugs proviso offences.

A spokesperson added: “When officers approached to behaviour a halt search, the antheral ran off, resulting successful a abbreviated pursuit earlier helium was apprehended.

"Following a antagonistic search, the antheral was released with nary further action."

Samuel wants to instrumentality the substance further and would similar to spot the serviceman "face immoderate benignant of disciplinary".

He said: "I've hired a solicitor, Miriam Altaf, she's moving precise hard to bring maine immoderate benignant of justice.

"We've filed a ailment against Northamptonshire Police and we've besides contacted the IOPC [Independent Office for Police Conduct].

"I was complying with the officer, I didn't perpetrate immoderate crimes."

"I couldn't judge I was the unfortunate of specified brutality from a constabulary officer," Samuel added.

"I asked myself if I would person been treated the mode I was treated if I wasn't of taste minority."