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In his church office cluttered with bags of candy, pictures of his cherubic children and Very Berry hand lotion, it’s hard to imagine pastor Rob Knight as an armed and dangerous criminal.

But that’s what Cobourg police feared they might be confronting when they surrounded his family minivan — child seats and all — during a dramatic “takedown” on Wednesday afternoon.

“It was all a misunderstanding,” a sheepish Knight, youth pastor at Cobourg Alliance Church, says as he recalls the incident on the city’s busiest downtown street. “The funny thing is there was maybe only two minutes when anyone could have seen the guns.”

Unbeknownst to the passerby who called police, the “guns” were harmless props in a video that Knight, 34, was filming with three Grade 10 students in a covered walkway just off King St.

The video, which he’ll be showing at a Good Friday youth rally in Scarborough, is a “modern day analogy of the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind.”

The storyline: two brothers meet in an alley, one of them an armed robber in a balaclava who’s held up a liquor store, the other a martyr who takes his place by assuming his guilt. They represent mankind and Jesus Christ respectively. The third character is a police officer who’s arresting the bad guy.

Several people walked by unconcerned as Knight and the teen actors “were all laughing between takes,” he says. “I wouldn’t have thought that it looked at all like a crime scene.”

Police apparently thought otherwise as they surrounded the minivan at the end of the shoot.

With a bit of prodding, Knight admits it was a true TV-style takedown involving as many as four cruisers and eight officers.

“They told us to put our hands up and had two of us in the front seat get up so they could search us,” Knight told the Star Thursday.

“It was a little dramatic,” he says, describing the officers as “very professional.”

The drama only heightens in the police version of events.

Four men were spotted rushing into a van while brandishing two guns just after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Const. Terry Stanley.

“He saw the pastor had a balaclava on, and he saw him with the guns in his hands,” says Stanley. “I’m sure it was horrible.”

The four men could have terrified the entire neighbourhood, Stanley says.

“Especially when no one knew what was going on. They were so silly. They just weren’t thinking. This kind of thing would get worried people frantic on their cellphones easily.”

Officers confiscated the toy guns — one black and one silver — which Knight says belonged to one of the students.

A remorseful pastor never imagined anyone might misinterpret the scene. If there’s a next time, he says he’ll notify police first.

While Knight isn’t sure how all this will go down with church authorities, he’s trying to see the humour in the situation.

“It does seem like a scene from a comedy movie.”

With files from Carmen Chai