Met commander defends officers in UK who arrested 12-year-old over toy gun

In reality, it was a BB pellet gun that had been fitted with a blue slider to distinguish it from the real thing.

A Met commander has defended his police officers after it emerged they had arrested a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun, believing it to be real.

A team of officers with sniffer dogs stormed the home of Kai Agyepong in Camden, north London, on the evening of July 17 after a call from a member of the public claiming to have seen a black male holding a firearm.