Met rammed boy, 13, playing with water pistol off bike and pointed guns at him

Firearms officers were called after an officer ‘saw a male on a bicycle pointing what was believed to be a handgun at a young girl’. Photograph: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

The Metropolitan police have admitted that a 13-year-old boy playing with a water pistol was rammed off his bike by armed police, knocked to the ground and officers pointed their submachine guns at him.

The Met has apologised for the incident, in which the boy was also handcuffed, which happened in broad daylight in Hackney, east London, in July.