Armed police have stormed a family's home after spotting a teenage son playing with a toy gun in his bedroom.The assumption is the people are the enemy.
Officers had staked out the home of solicitor John Trimbos before smashing down the door of his Victorian mansion flat in Belsize Park, north London.
The police were tipped off by someone staying in a nearby hotel...
Mr Trimbos, his wife, Lucy, and their two sons, Olly and seven-year-old Felix, had just finished their family dinner when the firearms officers burst through their front door.
He and and his eldest son were handcuffed and taken outside for an hour while police searched their flat - finding only the plastic pellet-firing toy replica.
And I'm sure the enuretic snitch feels indignantly justified.
"On this occasion the gun seen was a replica. However, we have a duty to remove guns from the streets and protect everyone."
ReplyDeleteSo now Britain's "Street" is a 15 year old's bedroom. Sounds like they got this one just in time. If they hand't acted, who knows how many people he would have killed.
It's scary to think that you could see this happen in the US, even though we don't have the blanket gun ban like Britain does (yet). We DO have PDs that decide what they will and will not tolerate and what they will and will not treat as a crime.
Scary.
What in the world is WRONG with people?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "This was a considered and well-planned course of action for the officers to take -- all the options were carefully considered in light of what police knew at that time."
Hey, moron, how 'bout this as an option, a freakin phone call to the victim John Trimbos and ask if he has firearms!!
No one said the boy was doing anyting other than playing with the (ersatz) gun in his room, a phone call from officer friendly would have saved everyone a lot of grief.
Sheesh!