{"id":41266,"date":"2025-04-22T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41266\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:12:10","slug":"armed-police-arrest-man-for-throwing-items-onto-major-bristol-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41266\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police arrest man for throwing items onto major Bristol road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a significant emergency response<a class=\"Badge_badge-link__41H_0 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/\" data-testid=\"badge-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 false\">Shannon Brown<\/strong> Reporter<\/p>\n<p>14:51, 22 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_BRI_PG_220425police-97.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers arrest a man at the side of St James Barton Roundabout\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police officers arrest a man at the side of St James Barton Roundabout(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been arrested after multiple police units were called to The Bearpit in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A witness reported seeing around 10 police officers at St James Barton Roundabout on Tuesday afternoon (April 22) <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/live-armed-police-called-bearpit-10123796\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"where a man was throwing things into the roadLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">where a man was throwing things into the road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police said officers saw a man throwing objects into the street at around 12pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in a public place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was taken into police custody, a spokesperson for the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police said: \u201cAt 12.07pm officers spotted a man throwing objects into the road near The Bearpit in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in a public place. He was taken into police custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Video footage captured at the scene shows multiple police officers surrounding a man on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He appeared to be in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">More police vehicles were then seen driving on the roundabout where the incident happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a significant emergency responseNews Shannon Brown Reporter 14:51, 22 Apr 2025 Police officers arrest a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,799,748,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-41266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-city-centre","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114382028526795337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266","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=41266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}