An American athlete was on the verge of being shot by police while playing Pokemon Go. Faith Ekakitie, University of Iowa team defender, was summoned five police officers to introduce themselves in a park, but he did not hear the law so that people have turned their guns on him.
“Today was the first time I feared for my life”, she said on Facebook Patan athlete aged 23 years.
A bank in Iowa had been robbed five minutes before, and police are searching for the suspect: a black man, tall, dressed in black and with a backpack. A patrol of five policemen in the park noticed a person who matched the description and asked to identify themselves. How Faith Ekakitie had headphones on and was attentive to your mobile phone for playing Pokemon Go not heard the police.
Once they asked him three times to legitimize police pulled their weapons and headed for football. Only after seeing four guns trained on him, Faith Ekakitie has realized the seriousness of the situation. “I checked his pockets, backpack, put me to lift my shirt because it believed hiding a weapon,” he told Ekakitie.
After passing the shock of such a random Ekakitie and has warned its fans on Facebook to be more attentive to the surrounding reality.
“I want to thank Police in Iowa for professionalism treated with a delicate situation. Also, I ask people to be more attentive to what happens around them,” concluded the footballer.
