A man has been arrested for "waving a knife and exposing himself" near a school in Islington, London.

According to a local videographer, a man was seen brandishing a knife and exposing himself nearby a school where pupils were in the playground.

Police rushed to the scene on Laycock Street on March 23 and the male was tasered and arrested.

The filmer told Newsflare: "I heard the officer telling the sergeant when he arrived at the scene, the male was arrested and taken into an ambulance after they tasered him.

"I couldn’t get close to the ambulance to film him as the police told me to stop filming."

A male as been arrested by police, he was seen in a near by kids park exposing his self and waving a knife, near by was a local school with children in the play ground, when the police rushed to the scene the male was tasered by police and arrested. The incident happened on laycock street N1.

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