[Americanexpat]

Five shots to the head for an expired visa? Boy are the Brits strict.

Seriously, from what I have read the suspect looked and acted suspiciously. The police told him to halt and he jumped the turnstile and fled. The police chased him down five of them wrestled him to the ground and one of them shot him.

It is hard to Monday morning quarterback the cop's decision in this case, especially after so many bombings and deaths this last month. If this guy was wearing a heavy coat (that looked like he was wearing something underneath) in July, running from the cops and then jumped on a subway with innocent civilians aboard and I was one of the cops and had to wrestle him down, I would have shot him in the head too to keep him from detonating a bomb.

Another thing, what if this guy was deliberately set up by the extremists to walk into the subway dressed as he was to test the security procedures the Brits put into place?

[Non-Sequitur]

The police chased him down five of them wrestled him to the ground and one of them shot him.

I heard that on the news, too. Five cops tackled him, had him on the ground, and then they blow his head off. Admittedly we don't have all the facts, but that seems to be the most disturbing part in all this.

[cbkaty]

Five shots to the head for an expired visa? Boy are the Brits strict.

hmmmmm....I am thinking Texas border patrol.....

[livius]

On top of everything else, he apparently had a belt or pack on with wires sticking out of it. According to his cousin, this was how he carried his electrician's materials. He also carried them in a backpack at times.

At least one of the witnesses on the train mentioned seeing wires sticking out from under the guy's coat and was convinced that he was wearing a bomb. I think he probably was wearing the coat to cover them up, because even if he had no ill intentions, nobody could be so stupid as to think that wearing a pack full of wires and electrical parts after a major bombing was not going to create suspicion. It did, and I'm sure when the police saw this, they were convinced he was going to detonate.

[jdm]

"Five shots to the head for an expired visa?"

No -- five shots to the head for refusing to halt/freeze when asked to do so.

[rod1]

Not paying for mass transit and jumping the turnstile is not a good idea.

The Police did the only thing they could under the circumstances. This "victim" might be a nominee for this year's "Darwin Awards" in fact. Hard to top the number of truly stupid moves he made, if really innocent.