Posted on 05/23/2013 4:02:24 PM PDT by the scotsman
'This is the moment two terrorists who butchered soldier Lee Rigby also tried to kill a hero woman cop who was first on the scene of the carnage.
Shocking footage obtained by the Daily Mirror shows how the calculating pair lured officers to the scene by dragging the body into the middle of the road and brazenly waiting for armed police to arrive.
When the first police car arrived the pair split up in a pre-planned manoeuvre with knife-wielding Michael Adebolajo charging them head-on, while his accomplice ran up alongside, aiming his revolver at them.
The film of the 10 seconds of terror show how Adebolajo got within TWO FEET of the terrified female cop who was driving the armed response vehicle.
She was armed with just a Taser as she sat in the driver’s seat of the BMW X5 and was only saved when a male colleague sitting in the back made a split-second decision to fire his machine-gun from point blank range through the window.
As he is sent sprawling to the ground by the force of the two shots and the two cops jump out to cover him they appear to fail to spot the other suspect aiming his hand gun at them.
Luckily a third SO19 marksman running round from the far side of the specialist Trojan unit spots him and he is brought to the ground as a further volley of six shots ring out in the suburban street in Woolwich, south east London.'
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Live firearm?
Is driving around with pistols laying on their laps ever done, anywhere, at anytime? I’ve never done it.
Britain is so weird about guns.
Nor me.
Probably.
I don’t know about England, sir. But here in the Colonies we have invented a device for carrying a firearm on ones person. It’s called a “holster” and they’re terribly clever. It attaches to your belt and you put your sidearm inside of it.
They’ve been perfected so that one can drive a vehicle while wearing it. They are quite popular over here with police officer types whom I believe you refer to as “Bobbies”. Perhaps if you sent a letter to Scotland Yard and inform them of this device they might find them useful somehow.
Believe it or not private citizens use them by the millions here across the Pond. They’re quite handy when one requires quick access to a firearm in a dangerous situation. Say like rolling up on a crazed, blood covered jihadi who has just murdered someone.
Feel free to pass this information along. Perhaps you’ll get an award or something.
Another thread mentions that some FBI did it in 1986, which surprised me, the civilians of law enforcement can be pretty stupid evidently.
LOL
Thanks, I need a laugh today.
You’re quit welcome, sir. I tried very hard to mimick the wonderful British sense of sarcasm. I bid you a pleasant day.
That would be the Platt-Maddix incident.
You too.
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