A police officer was punched in the face by an alleged drug dealer and accidentally sprayed in the eyes by a colleague after a patrol stopped two "suspicious" cars.
Video footage circulating on social media showed the scene on Ritson Street, Toxteth, at around 10am on Thursday as a plain clothes patrol attempted to detain the occupants of the silver Ford Focus. The video, filmed on the dashboard camera of a car in the street, showed four officers attempting to drag two men out of the vehicle, one from the driver's side and the second on the passenger's side.
The man in the front initially pulls back before he relents and steps out of the car, but the second suspect struggles hard to avoid being detained. The video shows one officer landing a number of punches and kneeing the man as he is removed from the vehicle.
