Posted on 05/22/2013 9:09:56 AM PDT by kristinn
A man wearing a Help For Heroes T-shirt has reportedly been hacked to death by two machete-wielding assailants in broad daylight in south-east London.
The two knifemen are understood to have been shot by armed police, although Scotland Yard will still only confirm officers had been called to reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street at around 2.20pm.
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Eyewitness James Heneghan told LBC 97.3 he and his wife had witnessed two men hacking at a third with two large kitchen knives.
‘We saw the whole incident,’ he said fighting back tears. ‘They were hacking at this poor guy, hacking him, chopping him.’
Mr Heneghan claimed one of the suspects had pointed a gun at his wife before they jumped back into his car and called the police.
He went on to claim that after the men had attacked the victim they dragged him into the middle of the street ‘like a piece of meat’.
A group of women then rushed to the victim to shield him from further attacks, Mr Heneghan continued, as the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives.
Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said that he understood the victim to be a serving soldier from Woolwich Barracks.
‘I’ll be talking to everyone who is involved, we will be trying to do everything possible to try and ensure calm in the area. People will be very, very shocked,’ he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
‘We think a serving soldier was the victim. We don’t know the circumstances surrounding the incident.
‘We do know a number of weapons have been seized. They include a gun, various knives, and a machete, apparently.
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Maybe in Boston, NYC, or SF might someone get prosecuted for carrying a knife.
Nowhere else.
I don’t understand why the Brits are just standing there watching these guys. Apparently the jihadis were even able to cut up their victim’s body, and nobody did anything.
What happened to good old clubs and metal pipes?
One perp had a gun. No one else did.
"I don’t understand why the Brits are just standing there watching these guys. Apparently the jihadis were even able to cut up their victim’s body, and nobody did anything. What happened to good old clubs and metal pipes?"
I know, I was thinking the same thing. What the hell is wrong with these people?! They are just seating there with their thumbs up their asses or taping these terrorists instead of stopping them or jumping on them and kick the living shit out of them. Where the hell are the Brits with balls to do something? This was sickening!
Well, they’re standing there and they don’t look particularly afraid of him, and in fact he even asked some of them to take his picture (which they did), so they could probably have rushed him. The only people who even tried to do anything to help the soldier were some women who were nearby.
I’d say there’s a masculinity problem there.
Unfortunately, this isn’t your father’s Britain we’re dealing with here (mine either).
Gee, he could be Dear Leader’s brother.
Back in the day London was the safest big city in the world. Damn shame non-discrimintion is now the ruling theory of the Western world....all cultures & peoples are the same. This is what you get believing that.
What? Rush the peaceful Muslim Black Man? You trying to get them charged with a hate crime?
According to tweets from a witness, it was a rusty old revolver that blew up in his hand when he fired it.
But that, apparently, was enough to keep sidewalks full of Brits at bay.
"Unfortunately, this isn’t your father’s Britain we’re dealing with here (mine either)."
Unfortunately not. Its shameful that it was a mom of two who had the guts to stand up to these savage beasts. Look at all those men in the background standing around with their arms crossed over their chests not even getting close....disgusting.
Everyone knows that the majority of UK police arent armed. That said, the UK firearms units are usually superb and are lightning fast, why today took 20m I dont know.
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE??
You do know that there is a sizeable black English/British community and has been since the 1940’s?. Do Americans really think all English/British people are white?.
Wow.. Just heard on Fox. Britain says “We’re not calling this a terrorist attack just yet”. LOL
This was Woolwich, a place where the two would be more likely to be assaulted with lattes.
There are still many places in the UK, esp the North, Scotland, Wales, NI, even parts of London, where these two would have been set upon. And the attack stopped.
Remember the attack on Glasgow.
What, do they think the guy cut himself shaving? Countdown to the obligatory "Islam is a religion of peace" statement...ten...nine...
Next year’s “CSI” episode about this is already being written, with the perps being crazed Tea Partiers incited to violence by an anti-gay priest.
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