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To: Coop; Despero
Despero's posts on the Brazilian's shooting are accurate, as can be verified by the extensive coverage in the UK press. There is no credible report that the Brazilian "struggled". Initial reports of him running away from police or jumping a turnstyle were subsequently disproven.

All agree that there was no police malice in the shooting. I here add some details on the police failings. At least part of the blame goes to the surveillance team(s), who failed to realize that the Brazilian's skin color was much lighter than that of the suspect he supposedly resembled. An additional blunder was the failure of the surveillance team and / or the coordinating center to arrest the man before he entered the train. Furthermore, the Brazilian wore a light denim jacket, an unlikely hiding place for a bomb. The decision to shoot was made somewhere (we are not told exactly where) between the surveillance team, the coordinating center and the armed team, despite the lack of serious evidence that the man was a bomber. Apparently no serious effort was made to restrain the man or knock him unconscious. The whole "sophisticated" operation stinks of incompetence and stupidity. Apportioning the blame is an ongoing process.

21 posted on 08/29/2005 9:33:20 AM PDT by pythagorean
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To: pythagorean
"Initial reports of him running away from police or jumping a turnstyle were subsequently disproven."

Disproven by whom? Do you have a link?

28 posted on 08/29/2005 8:19:33 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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