{"id":398207,"date":"2025-09-04T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398207\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:00:46","slug":"man-and-woman-charged-after-girls-weapons-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398207\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman charged after girl&#8217;s weapons arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a3374d0-8343-11f0-aa76-e16ed8c5f2c4.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Facebook A picture of a teenager holding items that have been blurred for legal reasons. The teenager's identity has also been hidden\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the incident was widely shared on social media <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A man and woman have been charged over an incident that saw a 12-year-old girl allegedly brandishing weapons on a Dundee street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The girl was earlier charged with possessing offensive weapons in St Ann Lane, in the Lochee area of the city, on Saturday 23 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police Scotland said officers had made &#8220;extensive inquiries&#8221; into the incident and repeated pleas for people not to share misinformation on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It comes after footage was shared widely online, including by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and Tesla who posted to his 225 million followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Much of the speculation focused on the ethnicity and actions of people allegedly confronted by the girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police Scotland said the 12-year-old girl would be referred to the Scottish Children&#8217;s Reporter Administration and the Procurator Fiscal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A force spokesperson added: &#8220;Members of the public are again urged not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Footage of the incident was widely shared on social media A man and woman have been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-398207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148044909599972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}