A 13-year-old Black boy playing with a water pistol was rammed off his bike and held at gunpoint by police.
The boy and his younger sister were playing with the toy water guns in Hackney, east London, when a Metropolitan Police officer spotted them and reported it as a potential firearms incident. The plastic water guns were white, blue and pink.
After ramming him off an e-bike, firearms officers pointed submachine guns at the boy, who is being referred to as ‘Child X’, and also arrested him. He was soon dearrested.
