Posted on 07/23/2005 5:13:50 PM PDT by friedamfry
Man shot was not linked to London terror attacks 23/07/2005 - 17:45:46
The man shot dead by police in south London yesterday is not connected to attempted terror attacks on the capital, Scotland Yard said today.
“For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets,” said a spokesman.
The fatal shooting happened in Stockwell at 10am yesterday when armed plain clothes police officers shot a man as he tried to board a train at the underground station.
He had emerged from a nearby house that was under surveillance because of a suspected link to Thursday’s attempted bomb attacks on three Tube trains and a bus.
The man, whose name has not yet been released, was then followed by surveillance officers.
He is thought to have caught a bus to Stockwell Tube station where he was challenged by officers, who told him to stop.
The man, who is believed to be of South American appearance, then bolted down an escalator, according to witnesses.
He apparently tried to get on a train before he was, according to witnesses, shot five times in the head by an officer with an automatic pistol.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair had said yesterday that the shooting was “directly linked” to anti-terror operations.
However, in a statement, Scotland Yard said today: “We believe we now know the identity of the man shot at Stockwell Underground station by police on Friday, July 22, although he is still subject to formal identification.
“We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday, July 21, 2005.”
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That's what I'm thinking.
Couple this with the fact that the cops were plainclothes, and it's easy to see why this man may have acted this way.
If a gang of folks were screaming at me in a foreign language while trying to run me down, I'd probably flee as well.
He spoke fluent English and had lived and worked in England for 3 years.
Furthermore, while most of the police appear to have been special undercover officers, they had obviously identified themselves as police when they were yelling at him to stop, since everybody else in the station recognized them as such and was obeying their instructions to get down, etc.
This guy was running because he had a reason to run. Brazil and other parts of LatAm are hotbeds of terrorist acitivity, particularly bombmaking, and an electrician is certainly somebody who would have had skills to bring to the "job."
Moral of the story?
Always have an empty H2O bottle stashed under the seat.
If this where true, then why are the cops now saying he had NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER with the Islamopunks?
To my knowledge, they haven't said that. They simply said that he wasn't one of the people they were initially seeking, and they're still investigating who he was and what he was doing there.
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