Comments | sisterdark: What do y'all think of this? (please comment, I honestly want your opinions)

sisterdark

What do y'all think of this? (please comment, I honestly want your opinions)

Jul 23, 2005 12:49

LONDON (Reuters) - Police acknowledged on Saturday the man they shot dead on Friday was not connected to bomb attacks on the British capital the previous day, calling the shooting tragic and regrettable ( Read more... )

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not only that, but... volare July 23 2005, 18:45:54 UTC

and you really don't want to risk tagging a person wired with a BOMB with a bunch of electrical current -- set the bomb off!

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sisterdark July 24 2005, 06:18:51 UTC

Amen.

volare July 23 2005, 18:44:22 UTC

in the end? in a high tension situation and he didn't friggon STOP WHEN THE COPS SAID STOP? what the fuck do people expect the cops to do anymore. it's sad that his own stupidity got him killed, as far as I'm concerned, but i can't fault the bobbies in this one. ESPECIALLY after last night's bombings in Egypt and Beirut.

cynical_ghost July 23 2005, 21:00:28 UTC

It's the sort of situation where there is no perfect solution, I think. I'm reminded of an incident where a foreign exhange student was killed in the USA b/c he didn't know what "FREEZE" meant. He was on his way to a party and was cutting across someone's yard. The person saw him, said "Freeze" and when the boy didn't stop, he got shot and killed ( ... )

sisterdark July 24 2005, 06:25:28 UTC

I remember that case, the foreign exchange student. Very sad indeed :(

To be completely honest, and this is going to sound callous as hell, I would rather the police use excessive force on one person than have a subway car full of people get blown to bits. It's a horrible choice to have to make, I couldn't possibly be a police officer in these times.

It's very scary to think that he might not have known he was being chased. The articles I've read have said that he was wearing a big bulky coat (in July? and trust me, it gets hot in London in July, I've been there, especially down in the subway systems it's hot as friggin hell down there) and his actions were "suspicious". What does suspicious mean though?

I sincerely hope that they have some sort of evidence to back up their claims that he was a suspicious individual. Otherwise I couldn't imagine how the shooter/police officer could live with himself. I *hope* I'm never in a situation like that.

book_of_lies777 July 24 2005, 01:03:23 UTC

shit happens - it wouldn't bother abit me to see armed soldiers on every street corner in the major cities.