cheshire cops swoop on suspicious looking international footballer

[smithdown]

Mr Winston Kodogo...

 

 

Police swoop on Everton star Anichebe outside jeweller's

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Premier League footballer looking in a jeweller's window was swooped on by police who thought the star was casing the joint.

Directed by CCTV operators, officers rushed to the scene in Knutsford, Cheshire, and began a "heated dialogue" with Everton's Victor Anichebe and his friend.

 

The 20-year-old striker's pal was put in handcuffs after police believed the duo were possibly part of gang of raiders responsible for robberies on exclusive King Street.

 

When police detained them both, Nigerian-born Anichebe was wearing a leg cast following surgery. Today, Everton spokesman Ian Ross said: "Victor was deeply upset and very distressed by the incident.

 

"I believe he is still waiting for a full and unreserved apology from the police involved. "Once he has received that both the club and the player will consider the matter closed."

 

Cheshire Police would not answer alleged comments from the pair that white men would not have received the same treatment.

 

But a police source said no complaints had been received.

 

A police spokesman said: "For some time Cheshire Constabulary have been responding to a series of violent robberies targeting jewellers in Knutsford and in the wider Cheshire area.

 

"We have robust plans in place to respond swiftly to any report of any suspicious activity at or in the vicinity of jewellers' premises.

 

"As part of that plan, local CCTV operators actively and routinely monitor shopping areas and jewellers' premises, and on this occasion, identified what appeared to be two men acting suspiciously outside a jeweller's store on King Street, Knutsford.

 

"Police attended the location within minutes and upon speaking with the two men, a heated dialogue developed in an attempt to ascertain exactly what the two persons were doing outside the jeweller's premises.

 

"During the course of this exchange, an officer took the decision to restrain one of the two men concerned by applying handcuffs.

 

"It was subsequently ascertained that there was no criminal conduct whatsoever on behalf of the two men concerned and they were in no way involved in any criminal activity.

 

"It is only right and proper that the Police act expeditiously in protecting vulnerable premises such as jewellery shops.

 

"We seek in all cases to ask for co-operation from the public in respect of not only reporting suspicious activity in or around such areas, but also their co-operation if an officer feels it is necessary and appropriate to make enquiries into such matters.

 

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?P...p;in_page_id=34

[johngibo YPC]

Although there was possibly some racist overtones to the police's reaction, it sounds like they were asked what they were doing and acted like bellends.

Reminds me of a story about Kevin Nolan when he was still living at his mum and dads though

 

Policeman: 'Can i speak to your son please'

Kevin Nolans dad 'He's asleep'

P: 'Can you wake him up'

Dad: 'What is this about"

P: 'If he is over 18 we don't have to tell you'

Dad: 'Well i'm not letting you in until you tell me what you want:

P: 'We want to know why a young lad in Toxteth is driving such an expensive car'

Dad: '????????????'

[smithdown]

it sounds like they were asked what they were doing and acted like bellends.

 

Does it?

[Hassony]

Thats disgusting

[Billy Dane]

Wonder what prompted the local CCTV operators to phone the bizzies?

[johngibo YPC]

Does it?

 

Reading into the story wildly i admit. They were asked, perhaps unfairly, what they were doing outside a jewellers and one of them ended up being arrested. I just expect there response was less 'this is what i was doing' and more 'what the f*ck is it you'

[smithdown]

Reading into the story wildly i admit. They were asked, perhaps unfairly, what they were doing outside a jewellers and one of them ended up being arrested. I just expect there response was less 'this is what i was doing' and more 'what the f*ck is it you'

 

I see. You've obviously never had anyone in your...hang on a goddam minute!!!!

[Hassony]

reminded me of this story

[johngibo YPC]

I see. You've obviously never had anyone in your...hang on a goddam minute!!!!

 

Well without anymore information on offer we can only guess what happened.

We don't know why the police were called, how the police handled it or how the lads reacted to questionning.

 

So i just chose to blame the Evertonian

 

Oh and i like the way the farmer is still smiling

[smithdown]

You sided with woollyback plod?

 

For shame.

[johngibo YPC]

You sided with woollyback plod?

 

For shame.

 

And the general public

It was a very tough call

[kop205]

Although there was possibly some racist overtones to the police's reaction, it sounds like they were asked what they were doing and acted like bellends.

 

Possibly true, but it isn't hard to sympathise really and they should just get an apology - of course they won't, because that would be to tacitly admit that their skin colour is what led to them being questioned which then opens a whole other can of worms.

 

I'd imagine that many of us on here would be similarly pissed off and also act like belends if we felt that the only reason we were being questioned was that we're scouse. I can only imagine how much more pissed off people must get when seems like it is happening on the basis of skin colour.

[Stevie H]

knutsford is absolutely full of c*nts. bluesh*te jewel thieves notwithstanding.

[matty]

Impersonating a professional footballer in a built up area.

 

15 years! Take him down.

[Jarg Armani]

Don't ask Moyes about this one. He'll do the big eyes thing.

[Redwire]

From the Guardian's Fiver:

 

WHITEWATCH

 

Police in Cheshire have been placed on high alert following reports that the county is becoming a hive of perfectly harmless day-to-day activity by law-abiding individuals with black skin. Fears that persons of non-Caucasian appearance may be permitted to go about their business free of groundless persecution have been growing in recent years and it is believed that some law enforcers have resolved to act decisively to reassure white-thinkin' folk that we'll have none of this filthy Obama cant in these parts thank you very much.

 

Nevertheless, niggardly traditionalists have demanded greater vigilance following news that Everton striker Victor Anichebe, a wealthy man with provocatively black features, today escaped without so much as a lynching having been caught red-handed engaging in the sort of innocent window-shopping regularly enjoyed by millions of white people across the region. In an astonishing admission, police revealed that the 20-year-old was not even arrested after being spotted outside a Knutsford jewellers, looking at jewels. All the officers who responded to the alarm raised by CCTV operators did was rush to the scene, enter a "heated dialogue" with Anichebe and his suspiciously black friend, and bang a pair of handcuffs on one of them, who was probably darker than the other.

 

"Police attended the location within minutes and upon speaking with the two men, a heated dialogue developed in an attempt to ascertain exactly what the two persons were doing outside the jeweller's premises," snapped a police statement. "During the course of this exchange, an officer took the decision to restrain one of the two men concerned by applying handcuffs. It was subsequently ascertained that there was no criminal conduct whatsoever on behalf of the two men concerned and they were in no way involved in any criminal activity."

 

An Everton spokesman, Ian Ross, replied: "Victor was deeply upset and very distressed by the incident. I believe he is still waiting for a full and unreserved apology from the police involved. Once he has received that, both the club and the player will consider the matter closed." Cue the Sky Sports Yellow Breaking News Ticker at 4.25pm: "tor Anichebe following incident outside jewellers ... Cheshire police apologise to Vic".