US EditionHalf-naked man in mental health crisis beaten by Tube passengers
LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE, MERSEYSIDE, AUG 9 – Merseyside Police use enhanced stop and search powers under a Section 60 order to deter crime and serious violence in key Liverpool city centre locations, officials said.
- On Thursday, August 7, passengers intervened after a partially unclothed man exposed himself on a District Line train close to East Ham Underground station.
- The man appeared to be in a mental health crisis, which led to a heated exchange and escalated into multiple passengers assaulting him on the train.
- Video footage showed a group punching and kicking the man before forcibly removing him from the train and restraining him on the platform floor with his hands secured behind his back.
- A British Transport Police spokesperson confirmed that officers detained the man under the Mental Health Act at around 3.30pm and transferred him to a medical facility, where he is still being held.
- An official investigation is ongoing into the incident, with police continuing to examine the circumstances surrounding the assault and the man's behavior.
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Footage from a London Underground train on Thursday shows a man taking off his trousers in the middle of rush hour traffic. Angry commuters confront the man and hold him down while waiting for police, the Daily Mail reports.
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