The power was robust with this one.
A Canadian restaurant’s “Star Wars” Day promotion went horribly awry — when a bunch of bumbling cops arrested a teenage worker dressed as a stormtrooper carrying a toy gun.
The Lethbridge Police Service in Alberta stated they acquired two 911 calls on Monday about an individual in a stormtrooper costume with a weapon exterior the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina, a Star Wars-themed restaurant.
Video circulating on social media confirmed two squad automobiles and a minimum of three officers surrounding the costumed 19-year-old lady with their weapons drawn.
The cops repeatedly inform {the teenager} to “get down on the bottom” — which was tough due to her costume.
“She saved yelling at them that she couldn’t kneel down as a result of, in that stormtrooper costume, you'll be able to’t even sit down in it, prefer it’s unimaginable to take a seat down,” her boss, Bradley Whalen, instructed Lethbridge Information Now.
The lady is finally seen laying down on the pavement and sobbing, as two cops handcuff her.
By that time, they'd checked the gun and realized it was pretend, Whalen stated.
“You could possibly inform by taking a look at it, even 10 toes away, that it was a plastic toy,” he instructed the Calgary Herald.
The staffer had been requested to face exterior the eatery and wave to passersby as a result of it was Star Wars Day. The date, Might the 4th, is a pun on the movie franchise slogan “might the power be with you.”
Police claimed the worker didn’t adjust to requests to get on the bottom.
However “It wasn’t a matter of her not desirous to cooperate,” Whalen stated.
“She dropped the gun once they instructed her to… the gun wasn’t even an actual gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.”
The lady sustained a minor damage that didn’t require medical consideration through the arrest.
She was taken into custody and later launched with out expenses.
Lethbridge Police stated it had launched a probe into the incident.
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