Her?
Profile if we must, but get the damn facts straight, first.
Posted on 07/24/2005 6:11:57 AM PDT by areafiftyone
And good police training means they didn't shoot an unarmed man when they had overwhelming force and had you surrounded. There are enough of them to just sit on you.
Even though I believe Brazilians speak Portugese as their primary language, you'd expect him to understand "STOP" in English.
Uh huh. Right. Pull my finger. Has it every happened to them yet?
This man is another victim of muslim terriorist regardless of who pulled the trigger. To blame the British police, whether in full uniform or undercover, is a politically correct rule no longer in force when the enemy launches a killing spree in your town.
We need this this type of preventative measure and enforcement attitude in this country soon and before, not after the act.
Yup.
Heathrow 1 year after 9-11.
Lost a (forgotten, small) pocketknife and threatened with jail.
No complaints... funny "how could I be so dumb" story.
Canard ~ Is it relevant?
Only to anyone who isn't brain dead, or hasn't been asleep for 4 or five years.
Me? I'm awake and filled with a terrible resolve.
Since 'canard' is french for 'joke'...
I'm not going to be so quick to say he was totally innocent. Why did he jump the turnstile; why wouldn't he stop when they told him to; why act like a suspect if you're not? And what was he doing at the address being watched?
You know, not everyone in the suicide bombing business is Muslim or Arab. They have to get supplies from someone, for instance. As an electrician, could this guy have been a supplier of some of the things needed to make, and wire, a bomb? Maybe his motivation was money, not ideology.
Brazil's foreign minister said his country was "shocked" by the shooting.
We already know this guy wasn't a came out of a terrorist safe house, hence my question.
I want to know why he ran. That makes me very suspicious of this guy.
As I said previously, if the guy had been a terrorist it might have been relevant. As we already know he had no link with terrorism, I couldn't see the relevance.
Your language skills could do with a brush up as well, 'canard' is French for 'duck'...
They said he spoke good English.
When in Rome die do as the Romans do...
Oh, please. He'd lived in the UK long enough to know the difference between the UK and Brasil.
Her?
Profile if we must, but get the damn facts straight, first.
I want to make it clear that I am not blaming the British Officers. What I am trying to do is understand why Jean Charles fled.
I experienced several years of Noriega and his goons and know what can happen if one didn’t try and flee even after they yelled “alto” (halt). But, Panama is not Brazil; therefore, I don’t know how things are in Brazil. Definitely, though, Panama and Brazil are not US and Britain.
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police says that this guy had no links to the terror cells, I see no reason to dispute that.
I think you overstate things by saying he was seen coming out of a 'terrorist safe house'. He came out of a block of flats that contained an appartment that was under suspicion.
While you push the button...
Jackass ran in a war zone.
If this guy ran from the police, he should have been shot. End of story.
It's like on our TV reality shows when the police go through a five-minute, foot-pounding, heavy-breathing chase through back yards and over fences:
"Why did you run, man?"
"I wuz scairt!"
Stupid is as stupid does.
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