A 47-year-old Sikh man and his son were held at gunpoint and handcuffed by the UK police in southern England after someone complained about hearing a gunshot - which was actually his car’s tyre blowing. Sukhi Rayat parked his car in his yard in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Shortly after a dozen armed policemen with dogs ran into his garden, then pushed him against a wall and put him in handcuffs. “I’d been sitting in my car for a minute because I was calling the company I lease it from. Rayat said that his 17-year-old son Harkeert was also rammed up against a wall and handcuffed.

Source: Hindustan Times August 27, 2017 09:11 UTC