Posted on 08/16/2005 4:20:27 PM PDT by Shermy
Terrible case of mistaken identity, if true.
But if they had a REAL terrorist on their hands, they couldn't wait; you have only seconds before the terrorist--a man who has already prepared himself to die--detonates his bomb.
In that case, you have no resort but to kill him at once.
So, who's lying?
"But if they had a REAL terrorist on their hands, they couldn't wait"
The police were first spinning that the man had a thick jacket, creating speculation a Brazilian would think an English summer cold. Untrue.
Said he was running away from them. Untrue.
Etc.
Its the London Times.
"So, who's lying?"
The police spokesmen were. Get it?
Smart to get this out now, when things are still tense.
and the source of the leak is impeccable of course?
A darker skinned guy with black hair running away from the cops after terrorist attacks. It doen't take much to side with the cops on this one.
"A darker skinned guy with black hair running away from the cops"
He wasn't running away from the cops.
"If a "thin" jacket is not capable of hiding anything, then WHY do TSA screeners pat down T-shirt and cut-off wearing people when the buckles on the sandals set off the beeper?"
The point being the police spokesmen said it was a thick coat which was supposedly unusual for the climate.
Apparently they made up the "vaulting" element of the first story out of whole cloth.
I heard somewhere that the guy was running from undercover cops, i.e., guys that looked like civilians waving guns. I'd run too.
Have you heard this? Or was it something I imagined.
That sounds about right for how these chain reactions start in tense situations: somebody was "relieving himself." I'm not being sarcastic. When situations get that tense, the most trival thing can set off a deadly event.
The man did not run. Police did not ask him to stop. He had done nothing suspicious up to that point other than be non-white and live in a suspect apartment building.
They showed pictures of the man lying dead in the train car. His jacket was totally ordinary. I wear one similar to that daily (it never really gets warm in Scotland). The man had done nothing wrong it seems like.
CCTV footage shows the man walking normally into the station. He was even casual enough to pick up a free copy of the Metro newspaper (I read one daily myself as I use public transport). The cameras show he did not vault the turnstile, he used a prepaid ticket. He only ran when he saw the train pulling up.
Think about it. The end result was that the man was innocent. This is not being disputed by anyone. If the man was innocent, this version of events makes a lot more sense than an innocent man running from police, vaulting the turnstile and leaping into the train.
I noted this on another thread but it bears repeating: If you want reality to conform to a preconceived notion, you have lost objectivity. Better to let reality be what it is and if it makes 'your side' look bad, so be it.
Mistakes do happen.
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