A rookie police officer whose "passion" was to join the force has been sacked after she CS sprayed a 6ft 4in suspect she had already "disarmed".
PC Rosalind Holt, who is 5ft 3in, had responded to a mass brawl at a pub and seized an empty wine glass from the man which she feared could be used as a weapon.
The 37-year-old officer denied allegations she was motivated by racism when she confronted the black man at Ye Golden Lion pub in Market Street, Blackley.
The former PCSO, who was a GMP probationer at the time, told a disciplinary hearing last week it had been her ‘passion’ to join the police because she ‘wanted to help people’.
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