Matt Styler, 50, of Orange Grove, Gosport, was charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker during the trouble on Tuesday night.
He was today remanded in custody at Southampton Magistrates' Court after he pleaded not guilty and opted to be tried at Crown Court despite being told the Magistrates' Court could deal with the alleged offence.
Prosecutor Nola Bond told the court: "In essence, it is part of the riots following the murder of Henry Nowak.
"The defendant was seen sitting on a wall. The police had advanced forward so the majority of the protesters were ahead of the police. The defendant was behind the police lines."
Ms Bond said a tussle broke out between officers and Styler after he allegedly refused to move before then kicking out at a police sergeant.
Styler, who the court heard is a military veteran and married dad-of-three, appeared in the dock wearing a blue polo top.
His lawyer Bruno Haine told the court: "He's sitting on a wall next to someone else. The police ask him to get off in their way, He has 13 pins in his right ankle of which he's had an x-ray a few days before and one is coming out of the skin so he can't just jump off the wall."
Mr Haine alleged an officer used a shield to inflict pain on his client's ankle before other officers began grabbing him from the side and pushed him to the floor.
He told the court: "An officer kicked him in the head four times with quite a bit of force."
The defendant gave a military salute to a man in the public gallery while being led back to the cells.
Source: The Mirror
So, this post that I posted earlier today, it has come to my attention that the man whom the police assaulted was a man in his 50's who was a veteran with 13 pins in his legs. Apparently, he was unable to jump from the wall; he was dragged and violently assaulted by these officers. I previously stated I do not know what led to these officers embarking on a violent rage, which in my view could have ended in a fatality. This level of force surely should be deployed in a life-or-death situation.
I have never seen this level of force used at pro-Palestine, George Floyd or any other demonstration that suits the establishment.
This footage is absolutely disgraceful. Every single 1 of those officers should be charged with assault. Head strikes are to be used as a last resort, as such strikes are potentially classified as the use of lethal force. These strikes were the primary force against an unarmed man. I admit I have not seen the events before this, but I can't see any reason as to why such extreme force was used by several officers, driving the edge of their shields into his head. I have never seen these tactics used by the police at the pro-Palestine demonstration.
We are told that a two-tier Britain does not exist.
The BBC has just released a statement about their outrageous decision to exclude Restore Britain from yesterday’s Makerfield Question Time - explaining they consider ‘panel selection carefully’ and they ‘recognise the multi-party nature of UK politics’.
This is the most blatant example of BBC bias I have ever witnessed - it is scandalous.
They had the irrelevant Lib Dems and Tories, along with the Greens. We will outpoll all of them combined, easily.
Ask yourself. Why is the rotten establishment so desperate to censor Restore Britain?
Here is why.
Restore Britain’s policy platform is robust and unapologetic.
We will do what needs to be done.
- The largest deportation programme ever seen in Britain to remove those migrants living in our country illegally. The entire asylum system will be abolished. The boats will stop.
- Net negative immigration. Far more must leave than arrive.
- If a foreign national can’t speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, doesn’t work, hates our way of life - they go too. If millions go, millions go.
- Close entire visa routes from countries proven to supply us with illegals, criminals and sex pests. The immigration ‘Red List’. We will discriminate.
- Fairer spouse visas - so that British men and women can bring their spouses to Britain without the endless bureaucracy and cost currently inflicted on them.
- An overhaul of British agriculture that puts growing and farming at the heart of any policy for rural Britain. Food security is national security. Slash red tape, simplify payments, ease planning laws, encourage farm diversification and more. Crucially, help youngsters into agriculture. We will ensure a level playing field for British farmers.
- Restore Britain will force the British public sector will buy British - it will support British farmers, producers and small businesses.
- We will encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some nonsense university degree. Teach children at school the life skills they will actually need in modern Britain.
- An education system that teaches, respects and celebrates British history and the triumphant contribution our little island has made to the world.
- Businesses freed from crushing regulation, red tape and tax. Reward hard work. Let entrepreneurs enjoy their success.
- Lowest corporation tax in Europe. IR35 scrapped. VAT threshold doubled. HMRC brutally slashed back. Dividend thresholds raised.
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- We will implement free parking in select areas to drive back footfall from the retail parks and back into our town centres. Councils will be forced to accept common sense.
- Fly-tippers will be crushed under the law. It will not be tolerated. Foreigners indulging in the destruction of our countryside will be deported.
- Personal tax slashed. Trust families to spend their money, not the bureaucrats.
- Put pro-family policy at the heart of everything we do. If British families want to have more children, let’s use the power of the state to enable that. Make childcare more accessible and more affordable.
- Reform family courts - so that good, decent fathers, and mothers, are not kept away from their children for malicious reasons. This is important.
- Trust parents to make the best decisions for their families. A limited number of days for a term-time holiday for well-developed children. This is just common sense.
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- Welfare radically slashed back. Those who can work, will work. Litter picking, graffiti cleaning, whatever else. Don’t like it? No benefits. That simple.
- Support those Brits who genuinely need the help, particularly children, but under a Restore Britain Government the piss-take will end.
- A foreign policy that puts the British interest above all else - proudly and unapologetically. We won’t participate in never-ending foreign wars. We will act when, and only when, the British interest is served.
- Rebuild and rearm Britain. We will have a big stick, and we will wave it when we want.
- A comprehensive support system for British veterans - including fast tracked recruitment into immigration enforcement field roles.
- Arbitrary foreign aid targets that serve no British interests, gone.
- Restore Britain will reverse the creeping islamification of Britain - no burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and so on. Cousin marriage will be banned. If you want to sleep with your family, this is not the country for you. This is Britain, we do things our way.
- Exemptions for barbaric religious practices will be removed. Gladly.
- Anti-white racism, eradicated. No more DEI. The Equality Act repealed, along with the various iterations of the Race Relations Act.
- Self-defence rights restored. If an intruder tries to kill you in your home, and they end up dead? So be it. That’s their problem. Pepper spray legalised.
- End the war on motorists. Cut fuel duty, no more 20mph zones. Motorway speed limit raised to 80mph. Sort out our decaying road network.
- Biological reality respected. Men are men. Women are women. No amount of surgery will ever change that. That filth will be kept away from children.
- Inheritance tax abolished - for farms, for small businesses, for everyone. The scam will end. Death will no longer be taxed under a Restore Britain Government.
- An infrastructure first housing policy. Developers forced to fund proper infrastructure before a shovel goes in the ground. British homes for British families.
- A Government that prioritises building roads, bridges and projects HERE in Britain. Can you even imagine it?!
- We will purse a British first energy strategy. Net zero will be scrapped. Domestic energy production will be ruthlessly prioritised. Nuclear, oil/gas, fracking. We will make it happen.
- End the lockdown legacy. Inquiry into COVID vaccine harms, lockdown convictions quashed, a truly independent look at how that was all allowed to happen.
- No Digital ID, ever. Repeal the Online Safety Act. Protect free speech.
- Defund the rotten BBC. Make it a subscription service and let it wither on the vine.
- A binding referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most evil criminals. One of my favourites.
- A national strategy, working from the findings of the rape gang inquiry, to ruthlessly tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture and murder.
- Restore Britain will end political Islam. Abolish postal voting except for those in genuine need. Remove voting rights for foreign nationals.
- Foreign language translation ended, in the NHS and beyond. You live in England, you speak English.
- The NHS will be restored as the NATIONAL health service. Serving British people as its first and only priority. It will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work, it will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing, yet take so much.
- Free car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors on tight permits. We all pay for the NHS, we shouldn’t be ripped off for the sodding parking too. Especially medical staff.
- Medical school caps will be demolished. We will allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine - the NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff. We will prioritise our own people.
- Reclaim our fisheries - take back our seas and take back our fish. We will take back control. Finally.
- The quangocracy will end. Power will be returned to the people through their MPs. Parliament will be empowered.
- Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state. It will all be hacked back in the most spectacular fashion. Unlike anything Britain has seen before.
I could go on.
This is a platform that millions and millions of British men and women are agreeing with.
The BBC does not want you to hear about it. So please, tell your friends/family. Get the message out there.
There is finally a political party with the balls to put you all first - to put the British people first.
Restore Britain.
@Jordan_MG_ No. We would like equality before the law. It’s a principle that is at the cornerstone of our legal system. Foreigners should not have greater rights to protect themselves than the native population.
I’ve watched this a couple of times, I did 3 tours in N.Ireland and C&R in HMP, this lot have lost control, no regulated baseline, using shields as weapons getting involved in 1-2-1s disgraceful
Not just the flat of the sheild but the sharp edged being used to harm him.
I have never seen such a feral bunch of Police officers attack one man with zero contraint before now, and Starmer is defending these thugs in uniform. Is there any wonder the crowd retaliated, people being beaten like that have everyright to defend themselves from their attacker, in this case a mob of Police Officers.
I've just joined Restore Britain. I've decided it's the last bus before kick off.
We won't get change facing riot police with wheelie bins. They want civil unrest more than we do.
A 50yo dad-of-three military veteran with 13 pins in his ankle, but that didn’t stop a dozen police officers beating the hell out of him.
The public support for the police is in its death throes.
💥I've made a close up edit of the police beating up a protester💥
It very much looks as if the police had planned to charge at the protesters & had planned to pick on someone to make an example of.
As they executed their charge, there was man who was sitting on the wall. Then due to the speed of the charge he was left at the wrong side of the police line.
He was innocently sitting on the wall, & is clearly heard saying: 👇
For what? For what? I'm just sat here, what?😲
Then they all pull him out onto the road for a huge pile on and beat him up.
The absolute brutality of the attack was completely uncalled for as I see it, and the fact that it looked to be pre planned, suggests that it was done purposely to turn a peaceful protest into tomorrows headings of far right thugs, is unreal.
They were smashing him repeated with the sharp edge of their shields, they were punching him repeatedly in the face, & kicking him repeatedly in the head.
This could have easily turned into a second police murder in the same area.
At the end of it he was covered in blood & blood was all over the road.
A quite horrific scene 😢
Once again it looks like more two tier policing with another injustice against an innocent person 😱
The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.
Remember when the guy removed some of the desecration from the Churchill statue? The police immediately went after him rather than protecting Churchills statue! Of course there is two tier policing! This notion from the left that it doesn't exist defies logic!
White leaders call for... oh. Someone call the white leaders. Wait, who's that? OK, someone call themselves the white leaders. Done that? OK, arrest them
@TRobinsonNewEra Sikhism is not native to Britain.
Why should we put up with religious exemptions for it?
Is integration all about carving out special religious allowances so that foreigners can continue to live exactly as they did in their own countries? Strange.
"Britain has always been a nation of immigrants."
I don't think it has, mate.
"Diversity is our strength."
I don't think it is, mate.
"You are spreading hatred and division."
I don't think we are, mate.
"We're in charge of this country."
I don't think you are, mate.