{"id":313243,"date":"2017-06-17T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/armed-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-carrying-knife-outside-gates-of-uk-parliament-video\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:06:00","slug":"armed-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-carrying-knife-outside-gates-of-uk-parliament-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/armed-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-carrying-knife-outside-gates-of-uk-parliament-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police arrest man suspected of carrying knife outside gates of UK parliament (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/392542-parliament-lockdown-gun-police\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>June 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>British police have arrested a man suspected of carrying a knife outside the Palace of Westminster after he ran, shouting, towards one of the gates on Friday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A member of public reportedly shouted\u00a0<em>\u201cknife, knife, knife,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to one Sun reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the man, who is in his 30s, was shouting and running towards one of the main gates to parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a\u00a0taster was discharged. The suspect was pinned to the ground while officers pointed a gun at him.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken away in a police van.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is not thought to be terrorism related, the BBC understands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man tasered outside Parliament after shouts of &#8216;knife, knife, knife&#8217; \u2013 being held at gunpoint <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GrenfallTower?src=hash\">#GrenfallTower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steven_Swinford\/status\/875660509374291968\">June 16, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 11.10am local time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is flowing normally around Parliament and armed officers are patrolling the area, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou could tell he was suspicious, he was stood there fists clenched. He looked quite an angry geezer,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Bradley Allen, 19, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe got seconds down the road and they had him on the floor, pinned. Police around him, telling everyone to move back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8y1A8FrXme0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another witness told Reuters:\u00a0<em>\u201cThere were about three or four policeman, one of them shouting at the crowd to get back.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe guy was on the ground on his front on the pavement alongside Parliament Square. They had him on the ground and were warning they would taze him again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man arrested outside Houses of Parliament. Pavement cleared, lots of police. Traffic still passing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tcfZeLPaG\">pic.twitter.com\/7tcfZeLPaG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelLCrick\/status\/875660865516785664\">June 16, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said:\u00a0<em>\u201cAt 11:10hrs on Friday, 16 June, a man was detained near to the Palace of Westminster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe man \u2013 aged in his 30s \u2013 was arrested on suspicion of possession of a knife. There are no&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/armed-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-carrying-knife-outside-gates-of-uk-parliament-video.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTJune 16, 2017 British police have arrested a man suspected of carrying a knife outside the Palace of Westminster after he ran, shouting, towards one of the gates on Friday afternoon. A member of public reportedly shouted\u00a0\u201cknife, knife, knife,\u201d\u00a0according to one Sun reporter. Witnesses say the man, who is in his 30s, was shouting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}