"1. Wear heavy and bulky overcoats on a warm day with wires hanging out of the pockets
2. Fail to stop when law enforcement officers order you to.
3. Run into a popular terror target when you've been ordered to stop."
Not one of these is true.
1. He wasn't wearing a bulky overcoat, and it wasn't a warm day. Nor were wires hanging out of his pockets.
2. He wasn't ordered to stop by law enforcement officers.
3. He didn't run into the station: he walked in. He didn't jump the barrier: he used his railcard. He even stopped and picked up a Metro newspaper on his way to the platform.
Look, we have to understand and admit when we mess up, and this was a SNAFU of ridiculous proportions. We blew the head off of the wrong guy, and he did nothing to provoke it. The circumstances weren't of his making, and muddying the waters with falsehoods about what he did that day serves no good purpose.
I agree. I agree with the shoot to kill policy but Sod’s law would mean that the first time it happened a totally innocent man was the victim of a cock-up. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.