Armed police rammed the 13 year old boy off his bike and arrested him because he had blue and pink water guns
The mother of a 13-year-old child who was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun has said she feels “betrayed” by the Metropolitan Police. The boy suffered soft-tissue injuries after he was rammed off his bike by a police van and handcuffed as he was confronted by marksmen in Hackney, east London, in July.
“How can I be expected to place my faith in the police to investigate themselves when they have treated my son and me with contempt?” She added: “I feel broken by it all; distraught because I was not able to protect my child from what happened.” Mr Jasper added: “Our children are routinely seen by police officers and teachers as adults instead of children.” At the same event Leroy Logan, a former Metropolitan Police superintendent, said the incident demonstrated “a failure of leadership” and called on the police officers involved in the incident to be taken off-duty. And Dr Wanda Wyporska, chief executive of the Black Equity Organisation civil rights group, said the case was an “example of institutional racism”.
In a written statement Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway, in charge of policing for Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said he had apologised to the family. He said: “This incident was understandably extremely distressing for the boy involved as well as the rest of his family. The Independent Office for Police Conduct watchdog directed that the Met could carry out both investigations itself. Mr Conway said: “Our officers are dealing with fast-moving situations, based on the limited information provided to them at the time.
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