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Terrified policemen pushed each other out of the way [...] to escape topless machete thug (UK)
Mirror (UK) ^ | 22 Jul 2016 | Gareth Lightfoot

Posted on 07/24/2016 12:12:52 PM PDT by mwilli20

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To: mwilli20

Were the officers carrying guns, unlike many UK officers?


21 posted on 07/24/2016 1:01:33 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: mwilli20

It’s Britain. If the cops would have subdued the guy they very well may have been charged themselves.


22 posted on 07/24/2016 1:06:11 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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They don’t even carry Tasers or Pepper Spray?


23 posted on 07/24/2016 1:18:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: CopperTop

Actually there is probable a lot of crime that never happens just because someone is watching. And a lot of good police work is being there in the neighborhood.

Plus they do have access to some serious firepower and highly trained officers in a very short amount of time if needed.


24 posted on 07/24/2016 1:31:18 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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In Britain, there are special squads of armed police officers. So, yeah, if there’s a dangerous situation, the police have to call the police. In 2013, when that soldier in London was rammed by a car and then attacked by two Muslims with meat cleavers, you could see police officers standing back waiting for the armed unit to arrive (meanwhile, two women went to the dying man to try to help and comfort him). The problem with that set up is response time. In the above story, if the guy with the machete starts attacking other people, he can do a lot of damage if the 5-10 minutes it takes the armed officers to arrive.


25 posted on 07/24/2016 1:39:24 PM PDT by Kipp
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The cops should carry machetes too.:-)

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26 posted on 07/24/2016 2:07:10 PM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: Kipp
The problem with that set up is response time. In the above story, if the guy with the machete starts attacking other people, he can do a lot of damage if the 5-10 minutes it takes the armed officers to arrive.

A microcosm of the Orlando shooting where the SWAT Team took three hours before going in. That may be OK in a hostage situation but ludicrous in one where there's an active shooter/hacker/whatever.

27 posted on 07/24/2016 4:38:14 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: mwilli20

For gods sake call the police. We are the police. Uh okay call a Texan. Good idea. Bang.


28 posted on 07/24/2016 4:55:37 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: RedStateRocker
"..Plus they do have access to some serious firepower and highly trained officers in a very short amount of time if needed.."

When seconds count, the police's police are only minutes away!

And I'm thinkin that last fella tryin to get down the stairs at the tag end of that fustercluck would much rather have been packin' some firepower as opposed to a radio or whatever they use to call for said "help". d;^)

29 posted on 07/24/2016 5:16:36 PM PDT by CopperTop
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America: POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP! Drop your weapon!


30 posted on 07/24/2016 5:20:25 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: mwilli20

Never saw a shirtless man described as “topless.”


31 posted on 07/24/2016 6:55:32 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Headless Body in Topless Bar.


32 posted on 07/24/2016 6:56:40 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Well, that is embarrassing. Where are the Brits who qualify for the SAS and the SBS? I guess there aren’t enough men for the services required.


33 posted on 07/24/2016 7:00:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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The perp.


More background here.

He doesn't appear to be anything other than brain-addled. We'll see.

34 posted on 07/24/2016 7:12:45 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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