After a car crashed into the gates of Downing Street, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and several other prominent UK lawmakers reside, the British Armed police detained a guy on Thursday, May 25.

The individual was detained “on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving,” according to a statement released by the London Metropolitan Police on May 26. There have been no reported injuries.
It was unclear right away whether the collision was intentional, but police said they were investigating the details. The event was not “being treated as related to terrorism,” they added.
Sunak was in his office at the time, the Associated Press reported.
Video footage posted on social media showed a silver hatchback car heading straight for Downing Street’s gates at a slow speed across Whitehall, the main thoroughfare in London’s government district.
Downing Street’s gates are manned by armed and unarmed police officers at all times.
Footage shot soon after showed the car with its trunk open up against the tall metal gates and several police officers inspecting the vehicle, pulling things out of the trunk and putting them in evidence bags.
The Downing Street gates were erected in 1989 in response to threats from Irish Republican Army militants. In 1991 the IRA fired three mortars at the street, one of which exploded in the backyard of No. 10 while Prime Minister John Major was leading a Cabinet meeting inside. Three police officers and a civil servant suffered minor injuries.
The area was also targeted in 2017, when an extremist inspired by the Islamic State group killed four people with a vehicle on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death outside Parliament.
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