Re: COVIDD-19 'Pandemic'
Police prowl supermarket to snoop on shoppers... hours after bragging about free chocolate 'goodies' from local shop - while motorways are eerily quiet hinting Britons are set for a Great Easter Staycation
Heavy-handed police officers are trying to ban families from exercising in their own gardens and prowling supermarket aisles in a bid to catch shoppers buying 'non-essential' items as Britain goes into Easter lockdown.
Police forces across the country have been accused of being over-zealous in their approach as they threatened to set up road blocks to grill motorists on why they were not at home, causing #policestateUK to trend on Twitter.
A video shows a South Yorkshire police officer scolding a family on their own doorstep for letting their young children play on their lawn during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has killed 7,978 people in the UK so far.
The force later apologised for the encounter, which it called 'well-intentioned but ill-informed', after the officer told the young family: 'You do not want your children getting the virus, it does not stop in front of your garden.'
Cambridge Police's official Twitter account boasted that officers had visited a local superstore this morning to snoop on shoppers and found aisles selling non-essentials were 'empty'.
The tweet caused outrage from social media users, with many pointing to a post sent by the same account hours earlier thanking a local chocolate shop for dropping off a 'generation donation of goodies' at its police station.
It comes as Downing Street warned police today that shops were 'free to sell anything they have in stock', while Home Secretary Priti Patel called on officers not to be 'heavy-handed' during the coronavirus lockdown.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...oar-ahead-four-day-break.html#article-8207393