Tommy Robinson was restrained by officers throughout a heated confrontation at Manchester Airport following his obvious deportation from Mexico on Sunday.
Footage reveals shocked passengers wanting on as an officer pushes the far-right activist in opposition to a wall within the baggage declare space earlier than pulling out a pair of handcuffs as Robinson shouts: ‘What have I carried out?’
In one other clip, which seems to have been filmed shortly afterwards, a second officer has approached the 39-year-old, who continues to shout on the first officer.
He's heard yelling ‘what are you on about?’ and repeatedly calls on one other particular person to ‘be my witness’ earlier than he's dragged by way of a door right into a staff-only space.
In a 3rd clip, Robinson asks why he had been detained, to which the officer says: ‘As a result of I used to be satisfied you had breached safety – that’s why.’
Robinson accuses him of assault, to which he replies: ‘I’ve not assaulted you. I’ve acted throughout the legislation as a result of I believed on the time that you simply dedicated against the law.’
The English Defence League (EDL) founder manufacturers him ‘probably the most aggressive police officer I’ve ever witnessed’ earlier than telling him he doesn't settle for his apology and strolling away.
Robinson, whose actual identify is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, claimed on Saturday that he had been detained in Mexico and was ‘being deported as a matter of nationwide safety’.
He was trying to go to the nation on vacation together with his kids, regardless of having declared chapter after being ordered to pay £100,000 in damages to a Syrian teenager whom he falsely accused of ‘violently attacking younger English ladies in his college’.
Robinson was mentioned to be dealing with jail for attainable contempt of court docket for failing to show as much as a excessive court docket listening to the place he was to be questioned about his funds final week.
He denied having been arrested in social media posts on Sunday and there's no indication he has been charged with any prison offence within the UK.
After sharing footage of the airport altercation he begged his followers to ship him cash, posting a damaged hyperlink which redirected customers to a non-existent web page on his web site.
In a later put up he gave the impression to be sat elsewhere within the airport whereas speaking to the digital camera.
Robinson accused the police of making an attempt and failing to ‘bait me right into a response so they may arrest me’.
He claimed one officer ‘grabbed me by the throad, ripped my t-shirt, then dragged me out the again and did the identical after they realised too many witnesses had been there’.
Manchester Airport declined to remark, whereas Larger Manchester Police didn't imediately reply to a request for remark.
Robinson beforehand posted clips during which he claimed Mexican police had refused to inform him why he was being detained, telling the digital camera: ‘I’ve by no means damaged a legislation right here. All I do at house is discuss Islam.
‘I’ve by no means induced an issue, landed for what's clearly a household vacation, and I’ve been arrested, detained and separated from my youngsters.’
In one other clip, he complains it's onerous for him to stay in England as a result of he can’t open a checking account or lease a home.
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