Posted on 07/23/2005 1:32:06 PM PDT by areafiftyone
A man shot dead by police in London was not connected to Thursday's attacks and may have been Brazilian. More Soon...
I believe they tackled him to keep him from getting up again and running. But tackling may have been the procedure they were taught. You don't shoot a weapon off in a train or elsewhere if there are civilians around, and there is a chance of ricochet. Before you fire that weapon, you'd better know where that bullet is going to end up. Shooting him in the head at close range was about the only way of ensuring that the bullets wouldn't go flying around the car, and also to ensure that a potential terrorist was totally dead.
I would respond to you post...if I knew what you were saying.
yes, you are right.. some folks on Freep are overtly and shamelessly racistic.. blaming that brazilian guy for looking muslim is utterly ridiculous.
They didn't tackle him. He fell.
Given that the guy did not stop for one second and was in full flight. I think it highly likely that he continued in this vein and was struggling with the police right up to the moment he was shot.
Tragic, but I do not blame the police.
What I'm saying is this. Shooting a random Brazilian is a cock-up.
However justified the officers suspicions may have seemed, they got it wrong and used deadly force in a way that causes the situation here in the UK to get worse, not better.
Mr Blair should beward of his tendency to shift blame. It is extremely important that the forces who did this and the politicians that authorised this take full responsibility for this tragedy and justify their actions in a way that the public can accept. Otherwise trust is damaged at just the time we can least afford it to be.
Thanks for clearing that one up for me. I was still assuming he was tackled, but he did trip. We just don't know on what.
Thanks. I've got that straight now.
Some say turnstile, others say barrier. One thing is clear, he did trip.
My cousin is a NY detective and I know in those cases if she had to choose to save hundreds of lives I am sure she would have shot him too. It is tragic but it does happen.
Thanks nj26 we dont need that kind of blanket statement. That is like saying american or british bomb first ask questions later. What an idiot for saying that.
While you profile Pakistanis, what if they bring along Bosnians/Chechens/Ossetians and Dagestanis ? All are fair skinned, blonde haired blue eyed folks, you cant typically distinguish from rest of europeans. Would you suggest killing all "european looking" people in London then ?
Of course there was a threat assessment. The conclusion was that the man posed a threat of detonating a bomb.
Otherwise killing him on the spot isn't justified.
And the other side of that coin is, since it's supposition anyhow, he had a designated time for the bomb to go off and was rushing to meet it. Hey it can spin either way.
I'm with you. I've always said that if I was one of the cops chasing Rodney King that night, I'd have been hard pressed not to kick his ass too. Having chased the SOB for hours at high speeds through small towns, putting the lives of the people in the area and of the officers pursuing him at risk, he'd have been lucky if I hadn't shot him.
Dude shoulda stopped when ordered to by police, rather than jumping turnstiles and hopping a subway. Swarthy young men wearing heavy coats in the summer should know better than to run away from cops into a subway car.
Sadly, the Brits will PC this to death, and more ultimate tragedy will occur, as the cops refuse to properly stop actual perps.
They showed alot of restraint in not shooting him. King was very lucky to get off with only an a$$ kicking.
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