Norfolk Police said the incident happened after the officer was threatened with a bottle and spat at by 'a verbally abusive' man in the street. The matter has been referred to the force's Professional Standards Department and is also due to be referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next A police officer is under investigation over a social media video which appears to show him hitting a disabled man sitting in a wheelchair. Witnesses were shocked to see the PC ‘pushing and punching’ the one-legged man during the incident on St Peter’s Road in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, early on Monday evening.
’ A screenshot from the social media video showing a Norfolk police officer allegedly hitting and punching a one-legged disabled man in a wheelchair Carla Carvalho, 43, who works at a nearby business, described how the man in the wheelchair had been ‘in the middle of the road, dancing and singing and all happy when the policeman comes and stops him’. She told the BBC: ‘He was trying to get up with a bottle of beer in hand and I think the police guy thinks he was going to throw the bottle at him.
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