After a deployment in the Sachsenhausen district, the Frankfurt police have initiated legal measures against a police officer. According to the information, this involves allegations of police brutality during an arrest. The police said it was being investigated for assault in the office.
Accordingly, the officials had initially issued a drunken group a place on Sunday morning. A 29-year-old man was "brought to the ground" and his resistance broken, it said. He is said to have "partially spat in the face" of the police officers and resisted arrest.
A video of the incident circulating on social networks showed police officers kicking and beating a person lying on the ground. The police said that "the police officers used improper violence against the suspect who was lying on the ground".
Operations manager apparently intervened
A head of operations intervened, took a police officer aside and later reported the incident internally. According to the police, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office is aware of the incident.
"There is no justification for kicking a person who is lying on the ground and fixated," said Hermann Schaus, domestic political spokesman for the left in the Hessian state parliament. It makes him "stunned" that the bystanders had not intervened.
A video of a police operation in Düsseldorf that was circulating on Twitter had already caused criticism on Sunday. A young man could be seen in it, whom two policemen were fixing to the ground in such a way that he could no longer move. One bent his arm behind his back, the other put a knee on his head and neck. The Düsseldorf police said they were investigating the video "with regard to the manner in which the police intervened".
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