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...they said:
"We are asking Londoners to hand in firearms and imitation weapons to avoid them falling into the wrong hands. In an inappropriate setting, imitation weapons will cause fear and panic, and could lead to a police response involving the deployment of armed police officers, with potentially tragic results."
Which translates to: Since our cops are unarmed, unfamiliar with and unable to engage in armed conflict, they may call for the armed caps who, not being used to seeing someone OC a BB gun, might shoot and kill that person.
Have the Brits started attending American police training?
Is there some new excessive force competition?
On the plus side Detective Clayman's display of erudition and use of low key terminology is rather, well, British.
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