Saw two police quizzing three very young kids (aged between 4-9) playing ball in the courtyard on my estate asking if they were siblings, returning from pharmacy. Asked what they were doing & aggressively replied “investigating a potential crime” and told me to move on. Come on.
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Far more worried about aggressively quizzing and intimidating small kids under the age of criminal responsibilty for playing in the communal garden of an estate than I am about people being “rude” to me. Worrying attitude that’s becoming all too commonpic.twitter.com/BqYSyQJhaR
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Same police officers had paused half an hour earlier to stare at me and three other people outside the pharmacy (there’s a one in, one out policy) presumably to see whether we were loitering metres apart rather than waiting to collect our medicine.
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When I want to have fun, I always go stand still on a tiny stretch of grass outside the chemist on a road used as a rat run, rather than walking on the nearby common.
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Also, I know the kids are siblings (they live a few floors below) but they were obviously confused by why they were being quizzed and what they’d done wrong, and quite scared by the police. Told their mum on the way up and she’s gone to check on/reassure them.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
i'm reading through the last couple of days of tweets from number 10 and hell if I know what they are saying (I think there is some metaphysical question about what "going to the park" and "exercise" actually mean") and I am not 8 years old and know what their tweets are
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It was clear to me they'd been told to play together outside - I see them a lot, and haven't seen them playing with their friends at all in the last three weeks, and they usually run round the whole estate, and now stay in the small courtyard where their mum can see them
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I explained to the police I knew they were siblings and they ignored me, suggested they ask their mum, and again ignored me just asking the kids "Why are you outside". Little girl was completely mute and clearly utterly confused and worried.
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