Police taser man repeatedly on mobile video

A MAN is repeatedly tasered by police officers in a mobile phone video which emerged yesterday.

The man rolls around on the floor in agony after one officer urges his colleagues to stand back before tasering him. As he struggles again during the incident on Sunday night in Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, he is tasered for a second time.

One of the four officers trying to arrest the man is also seen to punch him to the head area before back-up arrives.

The video has also been posted on YouTube.

The footage starts with two officers trying to arrest the man who is lying in the road outside Nottingham’s Theatre Royal.

When they fail, the officer with the taser orders his colleague to let go. He stands over the man and fires the taser – two darts on the end of wires containing a 50,000 volt shock.

Nottinghamshire Police said no complaint had been made against the officers involved and no one had been suspended.

But the case has been passed voluntarily to the Independent Police Complaints Commission so it can investigate.