{"id":820916,"date":"2026-11-01T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820916\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:02:10","slug":"police-probe-video-of-officer-hitting-youth-with-handcuffs-in-speke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820916\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe video of officer hitting youth with handcuffs in Speke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the video, the boy is punched in the stomach, chest and throat before he is handcuffed and dragged off the ground by the officer, then led to a police van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another teenager can be seen being pulled from the ground as he is arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a complaint was made on Saturday, the force said its professional standards team would look into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While we look to establish the full circumstances of what happened, we would urge people not to speculate and avoid sharing rumours or misinformation,&#8221; the force said in a statement published on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened the night before Halloween, on what in Liverpool has become known as &#8220;Mischief Night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are determined to protect our communities from the sort of appalling behaviour that we historically see at this time of year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a contempt for criminality and a commitment to cracking down on people committing serious offences in Merseyside,&#8221; a force spokesman added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the video, the boy is punched in the stomach, chest and throat before he is handcuffed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}