Had this happened when the RMPs were murdered, or even when that APC was set ablaze and stoned by a mob, and had it been targeted against people involved in those events, then many people would take a more lenient view. Especially if the beating had been administered immediately, as soon as the youths were apprehended.
But it didn't, and there was enough breathing space for hot heads to have cooled as the youths were frogmarched back to the compound where these cowards then had their fun.
The level of violence was disproportionate, uncontrolled, and inexcusable. Beating unarmed barefoot teenagers with batons is not what the British Army should be doing, and that piece of pondlife who kicked one of them in the crotch, from behind, deserves to have the same done to him, the yellow bastard.
Thanks to these half wits, all Brits will now be hated and reviled more than they were last week, and the reputation of our armed forces will have dipped further.