The moment armed police arrest ‘homeless man’ on Fargate in Sheffield city centre
This is the moment armed police arrested a homeless man on Fargate in Sheffield city centre this morning.
By The Newsroom
Friday, 5th April 2019, 12:24 pm
Updated Friday, 5th April 2019, 2:21 pm
Armed officers were deployed to the shopping area at around 8.15am following reports of a man in possession of a firearm, possibly a BB gun’.
Footage from the scene, captured by a passer-by, shows four armed police talking to the man outside Boots before leading him away.
The man had a sleeping bag slumped over his shoulders and eye-witnesses describing him as ‘homeless’.
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South Yorkshire Police confirmed that he was carrying a BB gun which was seized before arresting him for ‘a number of offences’.