Probe launched into policeman

LONDON: "South Yorkshire Police said on Thursday they were carrying out a full investigation after an officer was filmed on a security camera repeatedly punching a woman while arresting her.

CCTV pictures obtained by the Guardian newspaper and broadcast widely on television showed the officer punching Toni Comer five times while apprehending her last year for damaging a car, an offence she has since admitted.

The officer involved, named by the Guardian as police constable Anthony Mulhall, said he was acting in self-defence.

He has been withdrawn from public duties, but not suspended, while the inquiry is carried out.

The footage shows Comer, 20, wrestling with the officer outside a nightclub in Sheffield from which she had been ejected. Other officers then come to assist.

"She now began to kick, spit and made attempts to bite me. . . she tried to grab handfuls of my genitals and knee and kick me in the same place," Mulhall said in a statement after the arrest, according to the Guardian.

"At this point I struck her as hard as I was physically able with my right fist in an attempt to subdue her. There was no effect so I did it twice more."

He said he had hit her on the arm in order to allow her to be handcuffed.

Comer said she was pleased the officer had been taken off front line duty.

"I'm quite glad about that because then he can't do that to nobody else," she told BBC TV."

Wow. She spit, kicked, bit, and tried to latch onto his jewels. Then he punched HER in the arm and gets taken off the street.

Merry Olde England

Sho 'nuff he cants be doin that to nobody else no mo.

Hey now, If Hillary can talk blackface then so can I.