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London police plead for calm after attack at mosque
AP via Townhall.com ^ | June 19, 2017

Posted on 06/19/2017 3:56:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

LONDON (AP) — London police, already stretched by a series of major incidents around the capital, are putting more officers on the street to reassure the public after a driver plowed into a crowd of people leaving a mosque early Monday. One man died at the scene and 10 people were injured.

Police say a suspect was arrested immediately after the attack, which is being treated as a terrorist incident.

"Extra officers are on duty in the area to help reassure the local community," Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said. "They will be there for as long as they are needed. Communities will see additional officers patrolling across the city and at Muslim places of worship."

Police said the 48-year-old man who was driving the van has been arrested and taken to a hospital as a precaution. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. It was not immediately clear why no charge had been made in relation to the one death.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; england; london; terror
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To: Kaslin

Fake news keeps pushing the narrative of it being at the mosque. It was blocks away from the mosque.


41 posted on 06/19/2017 6:06:30 AM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: PghBaldy
The man in the police van under arrest has a blue shirt on. Unless they changed his shirt, the man in coral is not him.


42 posted on 06/19/2017 6:09:56 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: Chipper

“”Fake news keeps pushing the narrative of it being at the mosque. It was blocks away from the mosque.””


I saw a map in one of the London newspapers and it showed the incident was several blocks from the mosque.


43 posted on 06/19/2017 6:15:18 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Kaslin

Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said...

‘keep a stiff upper lip...’


44 posted on 06/19/2017 6:45:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin

Well I just got another 30 day suspension on Facebook for calling Islam a cancer on Society. This happens to me once every three months. Zucker loves his muzzies.


45 posted on 06/19/2017 7:09:06 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: angcat

If you said republicans are a cancer on society it would have not been suspended.


46 posted on 06/19/2017 7:12:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Nothing would justify vigilantism.”

What is your basis for that statement?


47 posted on 06/19/2017 8:00:22 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Kaslin

Terrorist attacks are just part and parcel of living in a big city, said their mayor. Oh, wait... he said it about muslim terrorist attacks.


48 posted on 06/19/2017 9:47:21 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: dsc

Whether it is a court verfict you don’t like or just a random attack on civilians, it’s unjustified. You’d need to declare your legal justification for using a violent means of attack on person or persons.


49 posted on 06/19/2017 9:51:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Whether it is a court verfict you don’t like or just a random attack on civilians, it’s unjustified.”

Well, you’ve repeated your opinion, but you haven’t provided the basis for it.

What is your basis for ruling vigilante action out of bounds under any and all circumstances?

By the way, jury nullification is a time-honored method for dealing with bad laws.


50 posted on 06/19/2017 9:57:32 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

Vigilantism is murder and you are blind.


51 posted on 06/19/2017 10:29:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: Bigg Red

Fathers day is same day for the uk


52 posted on 06/19/2017 10:44:11 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: a fool in paradise

“Vigilantism is murder and you are blind.”

Look, I understand. A cherished belief has been challenged, and you can’t find an answer to the question, “Why do you believe that?”

Becoming angry with me won’t help you.

Find a quiet place and ask yourself why our right to self-defense is entrusted completely and solely to the government, and why we lose that right if the government won’t enforce it.


53 posted on 06/19/2017 10:49:37 AM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc

You aren’t ‘defending yourself’ by plowing a van into random targets. No more than Dylan Roof was defending anything.

Even lynching isn’t a defense, it is mob rule (and was practiced against a variety of crooks and crimenals awaiting trial and even those broke strikes, not just black people.


54 posted on 06/19/2017 11:19:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: a fool in paradise

“You aren’t ‘defending yourself’ by plowing a van into random targets.”

We’re not talking about that. We’re talking about your statement that vigilante action is always and only wrongful, and the reasons you have for believing that.

“Even lynching isn’t a defense”

Some of the things that people have done when the authorities wouldn’t include giving people a talking to, or a whipping, or running them out of town. Those things are all vigilantism.

So, back to the question: why do we lose our right to be safe from predators if the government refuses to enforce it?


55 posted on 06/19/2017 11:28:22 AM PDT by dsc
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To: angcat

FB is nuts. I want to cancel my FB page and user name but they won’t let me log on to do it.


56 posted on 06/19/2017 11:41:58 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: GraceG

Okay, my mistake. Sorry.


57 posted on 06/19/2017 12:07:35 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

uique = unique

Sheesh!


58 posted on 06/19/2017 12:08:17 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

uique = unique

Sheesh!


59 posted on 06/19/2017 12:09:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Kaslin
So they are looking to call this non-muslim on muslim violence? Wow, they are quick to jump on that assumption.
60 posted on 06/19/2017 12:14:15 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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