Not identical, but the same footage (and in better quality): http://www.videosift.com/video/Soccer-Fans-Attacks-Security-Who-Beats-Up-Crazy-Fan

^I'll vote for it twice!

They are not police officers, and they are attacked by hooligans.

Get you facts straight.

I guess you didn't notice the pitch of that weird foreign sport called football.

Douche

>> ^Smugglarn:
They are not police officers, and they are attacked by hooligans.
Get you facts straight.
I guess you didn't notice the pitch of that weird foreign sport called football.
Douche


Excuse me? Who the fuck do you think you are calling me a Douche. How dare you.


The site is called "Video Sift" not "Journalist Watch" so I don't spend hours trying to find out what happened in these videos. I posted the information that I found in regards to this video. Men in black, with equipment and nightsticks to me corroborates the police information I was reading.

The people that came to be up the "officer" are hooligans? I understand what a soccer hooligan is, but when you see someone beating someone else when they can't fight back and you go to help? Well if that's being a hooligan then call me a hooligan.

Also for future notice if you have information that you feel is more accurate, like a news story, or whatever, I am always happy to update my story.

But for now? You can kiss my ass you little prick.

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Important precision here: these are NOT state police, but employees of a private security company ("Protectas", see the back of their shirts). This pan-European corporation has come under scrutiny several times for the misdeeds of some of its poorly trained and volatile thugs agents. Not surprisingly, it's also been known to treat its employees with utter contempt (impossibly long hours without breaks, humiliating tactics, etc.).


edit: I've just found out that this happened in my home country (CH). The title is all the more insulting considering how police officers here can hardly defend themselves without being dragged to court and defamed in the media (see my comment to this video for just one recent example).

More info on the video incident here (article en français)

Also, for some perspective (snippets from the article linked above):

- The security agent was fired but not brought to court, because the victim did not press charges (he vanished from the scene)

- The offending agent alleges not to have hit the head or vitals, and reacted in panic because the victim was struggling

- The ensuing fight caused three security agents to need hospitalization

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As long as the title and description of this video falsely refer to the security agent as a police officer, it deserves to be in the *lies channel.

At least this sift gets it right (and shows some of the aftermath).

Invocations (lies) cannot be called by hpqp because hpqp is not privileged - sorry.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Police, Abuse, Excessive Force, Anger, Riot, Rage, Soccer' to 'private security agents, Abuse, Excessive Force, Anger, Riot, Rage, Soccer' - edited by hpqp

Now I can: *lies

>> ^hpqp:

As long as the title and description of this video falsely refer to the security agent as a police officer, it deserves to be in the lies channel.
At least this sift gets it right (and shows some of the aftermath).

Adding video to channels (Lies) - requested by hpqp.

*length=1:36

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 1:36 - length declared by jonny.

and *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/1-victim-vs-4-security-guards-vs-50-fans

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by jonny. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

This may not be considered an exact dupe of the above mentioned video, so please wait for this video to be confirmed first (as it is an exact dupe of this one).

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