The Met Police are being dragged for linking seized heroin found 12 miles away to Notting Hill Carnival

The Metropolitan Police have caused a stir after linking a drug seizure in Catford to the Notting Hill Carnival, an event due to take place 12 miles, or three boroughs away from the South London district.

On their official Twitter page, they announced that a kilo of ‘uncut heroin’ had been seized in the run up to #NottingHillCarnival.

https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/899914758866051072

It wasn’t long before Twitter users accused the Met of “trying so hard to demonise” the carnival, “with an agenda to shut down”, by forcing a link between the two unrelated events.

Stormzy, who is based in Croydon, tweeted about the criminalisation of black events compared to the demographically white festivals such as Glastonbury and Reading.

How many drugs did you lot seize in the run up to Glastonbury or we only doing tweets like this for black events? https://t.co/v7XYvSg29t

— Stormzy (@stormzy) August 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/caulibroc/status/899929904208367616

Unsurprisingly, Twitter users started taking the piss out of the Met, and some of these responses are really funny:

Before Chelsea Flower Show Met Police found kilos of drugs in London. Equally spurious as link between Catford bust & #NottingHillCarnival https://t.co/4vaUxcUuKg

— Will Black 🍓🍄 (@WillBlackWriter) August 22, 2017

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In the run up to #NottingHillCarnival I brushed my teeth with Colgate toothpaste this morning 🤷🏾‍♂️ yeah and…. https://t.co/iyEdQqiaK7

— #TNO (@CreepaClinton) August 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/Carli__F/status/899931280061681665

@metpoliceuk in the run up to #nottinghillcarnival I've stubbed my toe. Probably have to cancel the event tbh 🤷🏽‍♂️ it's clearly dangerous

— Arjun KB 🕹️ $RCADE (@LazyTheHost) August 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/ninjatune/status/900024199632363521

https://twitter.com/MoTheComedian/status/899965735237242880

In the run up to #NottingHillCarnival I've finally sorted my Student Finance for Northumbria Uni #Newcastle

— Connor Beswick (@ConnorBeswicckk) August 22, 2017

In the run up to #NottingHillCarnival I found 20p by my door mat do you think it may be link to money laundering 😂😭#NothingToDoWithNHC pic.twitter.com/YipxclM2N9

— Empresssweetzmakeup (@empresssweetzmu) August 22, 2017