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  • It's sad this young guy has died but I've seen the footage and I'm struggling to see what the police officer has done wrong. The guy is clearly resisting arrest and it doesn't look like excessive force is being used.

  • I don't really know what happened, because it's not clear from the footage. However, the police are expected to carry out restraint safely, and for whatever reason this clearly didn't happen here. It may have been that he hit his head or some other reason, and we won't know until/if an enquiry establishes the facts, but the charge against the officer, and the cause of people's anger, was that the person restrained wasn't kept safe during the procedure.

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