we complain when the police do nothing and complain when they do something, but the police are also a law unto themselves, once the guy was knocked off his bike was it really necessary to beat him more times whilst he lay on the ground?, those batons are made of metal, and a good whack from that can break a bone, as for the copper kicking a man on the floor by the wall, well what can i say...the rioters, looters, arsonists and all other criminals all deserve to be locked up, but noone deserves to be beaten to the floor with a piece of metal, and continously beaten or kicked more, i live in London so have been in the middle of all this, but the police themselves are using excessive force when its not needed, the coppers have so much adrenaline running through their veins that they let most of them escape (watch the couple who sneak off) and then ganged up on the few unluckly enough to get caught, how many coppers does it take to beat and kick a man on the floor until he begs for mercy and then beat him some more, just because they can.