A knife wielding “angry geezer” by witness account was taken down by stun gun outside British Parliament – PB/TK
Armed police fire stun gun at knife-wielding man near British parliament – By William James and Costas Pitas / June 16 2017
LONDON (Reuters) – British armed police fired a stun gun at a man who reached for a knife as he ran toward officers guarding one of the gates to the Westminster parliament in central London on Friday, witnesses said.
Police said the man was acting suspiciously at around 11:00 am (6.00 a.m. ET) near one of the gates where a militant killed a policeman less than three months ago.
After firing a Taser stun gun, police detained the man. Armed police had guns trained on the man as he was restrained and bundled into a police van, witnesses at the scene told Reuters.
“The man reached for a knife,” police said. “Nobody was injured.”
A witness at the scene told Reuters the man, who police said was in his 30s, had run toward one of the gates.
“You could tell he was suspicious, he was stood there fists clenched. He looked quite an angry geezer,” Bradley Allen, 19, told Reuters.
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