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“Don’t worry I’ll get this all on Tik Tok!” screams a hooded man on an otherwise quiet South Manchester street.

The object of his surveillance is a gaggle of police, immigration and trading standards officers carrying out a search at a non-descript store on Stamford Road, Longsight .

The hooded man isn’t happy that they’re there, voicing his discontent for the authorities.

He draws a crowd who in turn point their mobile phones at the uniformed officers who are buzzing around the store which is virtually empty and with no signage, making it hard to figure out exactly what it is.

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Yet the store was open, and inside officers found three men. One was nervous, tense, confused and agitated.

When questioned, he is una

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