On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:58:32 +0100, Clint Sharp
wrote:
In message , Grimly Curmudgeon
writes
Really? How very flippant of you.
Fact is, flippant or not, it's right, although chances are he'd never
even have been deported if he was stopped.
If he knew it was a copper, do you not think he'd have stopped with his
hands up?
I have no idea, people run from the police for the most stupid of
reasons.
FFS, he knew all he was guilty of was being an illegal and
that was nothing to get shot over.
Agreed, I think I may have mentioned in one of my earlier posts that it
was an extreme act brought on by extreme times. I still don't think the
police were wrong to shoot, what I think of the complete balls up made
of the situation afterwards is a completely different matter.
IMHO it was an extreme act brought on by extreme panic and paranoia.
If we have a shoot to kill policy then we better be sure that the
security services are infallible, otherwise such a policy is
unreasonable.
All that poor ******* saw was a
bloke with a gun chasing him; I don't believe he was given adequate
warning of the fact of it being armed police on his heels,
Are you suggesting that the police should warn potential suicide bombers
that they are armed police?
You might find a high percentage would decide to run away and go bang
immediately on realising that there were three armed coppers following
them.
You've got to consider the probability is the subject /is/ actually a
terrorist versus the impact of killing an innocent man.
It's a difficult decision to have to make (one that I'd never want to
make) and that time it went badly wrong. You never hear of the tens of
thousands of times it goes right because (rightly) they aren't
newsworthy.
How many real suicide bombers have been shot dead by UK police,
thereby preventing a bombing? Zero, IIRC.
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