Star Wars: Disguised Stormtrooper deploys to police in Canada & is arrested

Police fix the restaurant employee disguised as a stormtrooper. (Image source: Youtube - Freedom Media Canada)

For Star Wars Day on May 4th, a Canadian restaurant wanted to advertise with a disguised stormtrooper. But the matter backfired.

A stormtrooper was arrested in Canada . Of course not a real one, because it only exists in a galaxy far, far away. Instead, a disguised restaurant employee arranged for a police operation because she was supposed to advertise in Stormtrooper outfit on Star Wars Day and carried a plastic blaster with her.

As the website Lethbrdidgenewsnow.com reports, on May 4, the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina (aka "May the 4th" or "Star Wars Day") parked an employee in a stormtrooper costume in front of the restaurant to attract customers. Because the restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada is built around Star Wars anyway, in addition to food, you can obviously also buy a lot of merchandise there.

However, some passers-by alerted to the emergency call when they saw the stormtrooper equipped with a plastic weapon. When the police then arrived, two officers with drawn pistols walked up to the disguised restaurant worker and asked her to drop her gun and lie on the floor.

No report, but an arrest with nosebleeds

The stormtrooper also threw her plastic blaster away, but she could not lie down immediately in full cosplay gear. After getting to her knees, the two police officers overwhelmed the woman and apparently pressed her face hard enough on the floor to make her nose bleed. The whole arrest was recorded on video by passers-by:

The restaurant clerk was then placed in a police car, but was released a short time later . Apparently the situation could be mitigated and cleared up because there was no official report. However, the Lethbridge police have announced that they want to launch their own investigation into what their officers are doing .

The excitement surrounding the armed stormtrooper has a very serious background , particularly in Canada . Because it was only in mid-April that there was a killing spree, killing 23 people . In response, the Canadian cabinet surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tightened the country's arms law and banned assault rifles .