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"The Metropolitan police have admitted that a 13-year-old boy playing with a water pistol was rammed off his bike by armed police, knocked to the ground and officers pointed their submachine guns at him."
"The Met said it was called to a report of a gun in the street and was obliged under policy to treat all firearms as dangerous until proven otherwise."
"The boy had been playing near his home with a blue plastic water pistol with his sister, who had a pink one."
"I know – and the police know – that they would not have treated my son in the way they did if he had been a white 13-year-old boy.
I know that they would not have treated me with the contempt shown towards me or described me as ‘aggressive’ if I was not black."
