Good afternoon. Welcome to the John Gaunt Podcast. Like you I should be watching the Olympics

because I'm adoring it, but I want to talk about what happened at Manchester Airport.

Let me make my position clear right from the beginning, the Airport Copp must be reinstated

tonight.

I wrote that yesterday.

I still stand by any more stupid community demonstrations and protests

must be stamped down on to. Enough is enough. If there's been an injustice

for anybody in this whole saga, it needs to be looked at in a proper, calm and measured way, and if necessary, the courts will have to be involved but mob rule can never be the rule of the

UK just because a mob gather outside a police station for two nights or disrupt the tram

service that can't be a reason for everything to stop that can't be a reason for necessarily a policeman to lose his job.

Let's remember this was in an airport and I said right at day one when this all occurred. I didn't pass comment really.

I just said, but where's the video of what happened before?

If these other coppers had been assaulted, including a woman police officer having a nosebroken,

let's see that video. It took two or three days for that to come out. And when it did come out,

it did exactly what I thought it would do.

It put the whole kicking in the head and stamping on the head,

which we can't deny it happened,

into some kind of context.

Clearly there was a massive... into some kind of context.

Clearly there was a massive violent altercation

before this and the two innocent boys or brothers as they like to call themselves they were involved in that

now whether they started or not I don't know maybe there's a third video to come out

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