London police sacrifice goodwill

[orderinchaos]

This is a woeful state of affairs. The story is as summarised by Sibanu on shortnews (I added plain-clothes as that was not known at the time):

"For those of you who aren't aware of the background to the story, it appears that a man in a thick coat (in summer) was persued by (plain-clothes) police in the London Underground. The police shouted at

Comments

[nicwhite86]

Come ON, the shooting was entirely justified. They made a mistake, but if the guy had been a bomber, it would have been more than just him that died.

[medusadan]

Er... did you see this? :/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1738370,00.html