Video footage has revealed the chaotic moment where nine police officers punch and smash a car’s windows with their batons while attempting to stop a ‘dangerous’ driver.
Manchester Police tried to stop the suspect, 30, who had been driving erratically down a street in Bolton last Wednesday but he refused to comply, remaining in his car as officers screamed at him to ‘open the door’.
The video shows three officers forcefully yanking the locked Ford Fiesta car doors and elbowing the windows as the driver is cornered on a cobbled street.
A nearby car horn can be heard, prompting the officers to shout in its direction: ‘Do not move! Stay there!’
Seconds later, one enraged officer shouts ‘open the door or I’ll smash your f***ing window’, while another yells ‘open the f***ing door’.
Pictured: a police officer pounds on the car window with her elbow, shouting at the driver to ‘open the door’
Pictured: nine police officers surround the driver’s Ford Fiesta car as they succeed in opening the door (suspect is seated in the car)
The stubborn driver remains rooted in his seat as five more police officers run towards the car, bashing it with batons.
He then jerkily reverses backwards to more overlapping shouts of ‘get out of the f***ing car!’
One officer smashes in the car’s passenger window with her baton, sending shattered glass flying.
Eventually, the man is pulled from the car and put to the ground to be handcuffed, with a total of ten police officers gathered in a circle around him.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said that officers were made aware of the dangerous driver on Derby Street at around 2 pm on January 29.
‘A 30-year-old man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of failing to stop, dangerous driving, driving without insurance, possession of Class B and C drugs and having an offensive weapon.’
The video’s final frame shows the man standing up with his hands cuffed behind his back, wearing a grey tracksuit and black and grey trainers.
The driver is still in custody, police have said.
Pictured: the town of Bolton, Manchester, where the man was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop, dangerous driving, driving without insurance, possession of Class B and C drugs and having an offensive weapon
