The Mayor of Greater Manchester has said “nobody is in possession of the complete picture” of the Manchester Airport incident earlier this week.

On Saturday, new footage was shared and is believed to be of the preceding events.

The video posted by the MEN, appears to shows a group of people standing by ticket machines in Terminal Two (T2) and a man in a light blue outfit is facing one of the machines.

It appears three officers approach him from behind and try to restrain him, with a male officer seemingly pushing his head down.

Another man, wearing a dark t-shirt, appears to grab the male officer and the two start to throw punches at one another.

The male officer seems to lower to the ground as the man repeatedly strikes him.

Meanwhile a female officer is restraining the man in blue, but he appears to break free and strike her and another female officer, with one ending up on the ground.

The male officer then seems to point his taser at the man in a dark t-shirt before the man in blue runs at him from behind.

They appear to grapple until the man in blue lies still on the ground, face-down, and a woman kneels by his side.

The officer then appears to kick and then stamp on his head, which was shown in the footage already widely circulated.

Greater Manchester Police has opened a public portal for more footage and it is appealing for witnesses to three incidents.

The first is “an altercation between passengers” from Qatar Airways flight QR023 that arrived at 7.20pm, which they said may have taken place on the flight or T2 baggage hall.

There was then a “violent altercation involving members of the public” in T2 at about 8.22pm, GMP said.

At 8.28pm at the terminal’s car park pay point area three police officers were assaulted and left with head injuries including a broken nose, it added.

Mayor Andy Burnham urged people to “take a step back” and allow the authorities to carry out their investigations.

He told Sky News: “It’s a complicated situation, a very violent situation actually, and there were issues on both sides.

“That’s why I asked other people not to rush to judgment because of the complexity of it and, simply, everyone who’s having their say, nobody has got all of the facts. Nobody is in possession of the complete picture.”

Asked when some kind of conclusion could expected to be reached by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, Mr Burnham said: “I know it’s a frustration in the world we live in, everybody wants instant conclusions, but life’s not like that, is it?

“We have in the last few days people making complete judgments on the one side or the other. You’re picking a side in this whole thing and the truth always lies somewhere in between.

“Life’s more complicated than sometimes people portray it to be on social media.”

It came as the family of a man who was kicked and stamped on during the incident issued a “plea for calm”.

Paul Waugh, the newly elected Labour MP for Rochdale, shared a statement written by the family urging people to give those involved “time to heal” and for “due process to take its course”.

Mr Waugh shared an image of the family’s statement on X on Saturday morning and wrote: “I have checked with the family of the Manchester Airport incident and this remains their latest message to all communities.

“They have issued a plea for calm and ask for no further protests – they want due process to take its course and urge everyone to respect their wishes.

“Yesterday’s meeting in Rochdale made clear that this is a community that strongly believes in the rule of law, that the criminal justice system should follow the evidence wherever it leads, and that offenders should be punished appropriately.

“Those present also rightly stressed that the law should be applied equally to everyone – and that no one, particularly the police, should be above the law.”

The mayor said there were three stages to the incident, with a prior dispute taking place on a plane before the footage seen by the public.