An eight-year-old boy was left in tears after being ordered by police officers to break his toy gun.
Samuel England was playing outside his house when police officers told him it was an offence to be
playing with an imitation firearm in a public place. The police then told Samuels’s stepfather, John Standen, the boy would be taken down to the police station if he didn’t break the toy in front of him.
"The officer told me if I didn't break it Samuel would be arrested," he said.
To make matters worse, the police officer came back five minutes later to complain about Samuel’s sisters Barbie car. The officer told Sophie England that the three-mile-an-hour battery toy car could only be used in the garden. Samuel and Sophie can at least be thankful that they didn’t have tasers used on them, as the UK government has now said that tasers can be used on children.
Where the police were once employed to “protect and serve” citizens, now they are merely “law enforcers”. Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated incident of police stupidity.We have already reported on the ten reasons why the UK is a police state.
Police recently reprimanded a woman for shouting at her child who was having a tantrum in a shop. The officers told the mother that it was “inappropriate” for her to shout at the child in light of Madeleine McCann's disappearance from a holiday home in Portugal.
It appears as though some police officers are beginning to believe that they actually make the laws. Darren Pollard was ordered by police to stop filming them despite no law existing preventing the filming of police officers from citizens. If you want to know more about your rights when being stopped by police – visit this site. Watch the video of Darren Pollard below:
http://www.counciloftruth.com/content/view/152/1/
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