Footage has emerged of Victorian police punching and kneeling on a man who allegedly assaulted an officer during a violent arrest in Broadmeadows.
It’s alleged the 37-year-old Gladstone Park man had been on a smashing spree across the city this morning, punching multiple poker machines in Airport West and smashing a rock into another gaming machine at a venue in Gladstone Park.
Just before midday, he travelled to Broadmeadows Police Station, where he allegedly threw a rock at a marked police vehicle parked outside, smashing its windscreen.
The man ran down the road to Broadmeadows Square, where police caught up with him.
It’s there he allegedly punched an officer in the face and heavily resisted arrest before they used capsicum spray to detain him.
Video footage shows a police officer repeatedly punching the man as two others pinned him down and held his hands behind his back.
He was arrested and will be interviewed by police.
