(Untitled)

[sethi]

"I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers. One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

Comments

[herdivineshadow]

It's kind of worrying really, at least until we get told why they shot him.

If he was wearing some kind of bomb belt or vest, then they would have shot him 5 times in the head.

[sethi]

How much you bet that the policed officers get in the shit for it and all..

[red_jon]

So what if they did? 5 shots seems pretty excessive.

[bigme]

only way to be sure

[red_jon]

It's never funny when someone is killed, no matter what they've done.

And do remember there's a reason the police have a reputation for getting the wrong guy.

[cave_gary]

no i utterly disagree there. there can and have been deaths which are inherently humourous (for example spreading yourself across the landscape doing something dumb ) and then there are deaths which are funny in a useful way, like l;ittle pieces of shit getting their commupance when attempting to murder multiple innocent people.

[red_jon]

Perhaps it would be more useful if we ask ourselves why people would do this, rather than just presume them evil and worthy of death.

We've killed tens of thousands in Iraq, who's to say we don't have a commupance then?

[sapphrine]

if it is a legitimate strategy to kill innocents in a war, then why do we have war crimes tribunals and a code of conduct?

[sethi]

Policeman puts his gun away, straitens his tie and does his jacket back up. Points to the ground. “No ticket!”
/end of horrifically bad taste joke ripped of Indiana Jones

[cave_gary]

nah man, that wasnt horrendously bad taste atall, it was spot on taste :-p

[herdivineshadow]

...

See, I thought that was a Dogma ripoff.

[red_jon]

Considering the poor sod turned out to be innocent after all, I'd say you're right, that is poor taste.

[red_jon]

Sur-prise, the guy was innocent.

Police State

[princess_louwin]

The police obviously thought there was no other way to deal with the situation than to shoot the man and so I don't blame them for anything at all, they get so much contradictory shit as it is.
The fact remains tho, as Red said, the guy (even if he was involved in the scheme of things) on that particular day was innocent of any wrong doing apart from running away and he was shot from behind. Whether the police were right or not, I must say this feels like a precurser of atrocious things to come. Increased plain clothes officers walking around london with semi-automatics doesn't make me feel safe, neither does the rising anti-muslim hatred being churned out by right wing newspapers.
Feeling compassion for a dead man, or for those who have suffered is NOT siding with terrorists. I don't condone their cause and what they're doing is evil but to be desperate enough to see such an avenue as your only option... what on earth HAPPENED to these young men?