Video apparently shows the background to the kicking incident at Manchester Airport

A new video claims to show the moments before a police officer apparently kicked and trampled on the head of a man lying on the ground at Manchester Airport on Tuesday.

The video shows police trying to detain a man before a second man tries to intervene and a fight breaks out.

A police officer was suspended after another clip of the same incident circulated online.

The officer is under criminal investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for assault and has been given a disciplinary notice for possible gross misconduct.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the officer took action after he and other colleagues were “violently attacked” in a car park in Terminal 2 at around 8.30pm (BST) on Tuesday.

New footage, obtained exclusively by the Manchester Evening News, appears to show three police officers attempting to arrest a man before another man approaches them and tries to intervene.

The BBC has not independently verified the source of this video.

After the second man intervenes, a fight breaks out and physical violence ensues.

The first man knocks two officers to the ground while another officer points a taser at the second man.

As the first man wrestles with a third officer, another officer appears to deploy a taser and the two fall to the ground.

The man then lies face down with his arms tied to his sides while the officer stands up.

An elderly woman who fell earlier in the video crawls over to the man, who lies mostly motionless.

Then an officer apparently kicks the man lying on the ground in the head.

The new footage ends here, but the original video appears to show the officer then stepping on the man’s head.

A BBC Verify analysis of five social media videos of the incident suggests that the violence did not end there.

Another video appears to show the same officer approaching another man, kicking him in the thigh and hitting him in the back of the head with a taser.

Another officer appears to spray pepper spray at bystanders who were filming the incident.

The latest video is not included in the Verify coverage.

The family of the man who was kicked have “appealed for calm across all communities”, according to Rochdale MP Paul Waugh, who spoke to them after the incident.

He told BBC Breakfast that the family was “well aware” that there were “extremists on all sides who wanted to exploit this incident for their own ends”.

He said the “strong message” the family wanted to convey was that they had “no political agenda at all”.

A police spokesman said there was a “clear risk” that the armed officers’ weapons could have been taken away. Three officers were taken to hospital, one with a broken nose.

Four men aged 19, 25, 28 and 31 were subsequently arrested on suspicion of affray and assault and later released on bail.

Police said they understood the “deep concern” that had been “widely expressed” in connection with the footage.