No messing in Manchester: Police caught on camera chasing down gang of rioters

Violence of police dealing with looters revealed on film



200 youths on rampage cause chaos on the streets

Baying mob surround plain clothes officers

'Extraordinary and unprecedented levels of violence' used against police

Riot police had been accused of adopting a hands-off approach when dealing with looters.

But there was no chance of these officers, equipped with batons and shields, taking a softly-softly approach as they chased down and clobbered a group of suspected rioters.



A police officer appears to kick one of the trio in the head and he is beaten five times with truncheons after the police chase him down. He is later seen getting to his feet.

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Beating: A suspected rioter lies on the ground as he is clobbered by two police officers standing over him

Walking along the road, this group of seven riot officers had apparently been searching for the thugs for around ten minutes as a helicopter hovered overhead

Seven police officers, right, chase down the suspected rioters on bicycles, left, as they come round a corner close to the centre of Manchester last night

A second suspect is sent flying from his bicycle after being hit with the truncheon as he desperately tries to get away.



Police had been using the force helicopter to track down the group for around ten minutes before the incident in Manchester, it was claimed.

A Miss Selfridge store was torched by yobs and shop windows were smashed during the fourth night of disorder in Britain.

The group are believed to have fled from the city centre where hundreds of youths had caused chaos as they went on the rampage.

An officer prepares to clobber a cyclist (centre) as he tries to cycle away around the corner

A suspect falls to the ground, left, while officers confront and chase down a second suspect to give him a clobbering

A police officer stands over the rioter (centre) and reaches to whack him with a baton

The suspects were cornered as riot police set up a line nearby.



The incident happened shortly after 10pm last night, according to the person who posted the footage on YouTube.

A third suspect can apparently be seen being kicked by one of the officers during the clip.

Children as young as ten had been spotted fleeing looted stores with bottles of wine and vodka.

A marauding gang of up to 200 youths, most of them masked or wearing hoodies, fought a running battle with police, kicking in windows of supermarkets, jewellery stores and mobile phone shops.



The mob had almost total control of city centre streets for more than an hour and a half before deployments of plain-clothed police – some armed with telescopic truncheons – made raids on specific targets to apprehend looters.

In the heart of the city, Miss Selfridge was set alight and stores including Swarovski, T-Mobile, French Connection and Marks & Spencer all had their windows smashed.



About 100 yobs looted shops including Foot Asylum in the Arndale Centre.

Liam Gallagher's recently opened fashion boutique Pretty Green in King Street had its windows smashed and was ransacked by looters.

In Swarovski, two looters were arrested by a team of five plain-clothed officers who had to call for backup as they were surrounded by a baying mob of around 50 masked men.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: ' Police officers responding to incidents last night in Salford and Manchester were faced with extraordinary and unprecedented levels of violence being used against them.



'The Professional Standards Branch is part of GMP's response in dealing with the aftermath of this critical situation.

