"He was in Westminster on Saturday, January 4, at around 10.50pm mid-livestream when police surrounded Krimoe and a group he was with and quickly detained him. In a video posted on Instagram, police sirens can be heard as Big Ben chimes. Someone shouts, oh my f***ing Jesus and the social media influencer Krimoe puts his hands in the air. An officer puts him in handcuffs."
"Police officers can be heard shouting has someone here got a gun? An officer explains they had been seen on a CCTV camera with a firearm. The caption says: Bro got arrested with a Poundland wap. A caption on a separate post says the gun was a toy. The content creator said he had been mimicking a rapper from the US while pretending to fire a toy gun."
"The Met Police said 11 people were arrested on suspicion of possession of an imitation firearm in public. A police spokesperson said: Police were called at 22:50hrs on Saturday, 3 January close to Westminster Bridge following reports of a group of men carrying a firearm. Officers attended quickly and arrested 11 men on suspicion of possession of an imitation firearm in a public place. They have since been bailed pending further enquiries."
Krimoe, a content creator with prank-call and unscripted public interaction videos and 80,000 Instagram followers, was live-streaming near Westminster at about 22:50 on 3 January. Police surrounded Krimoe and his group after CCTV reportedly showed someone carrying a firearm; officers detained him on camera as sirens sounded and Big Ben chimed. Video captions and posts described the object as a toy or 'Poundland wap,' and the creator said he was mimicking a US rapper while pretending to fire a toy gun. The Met Police arrested 11 men on suspicion of possession of an imitation firearm in a public place; they have been bailed pending enquiries.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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