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Friday, July 22 Man shot by police on Tube (BBC News reports) So... I just read the BBC News article that a man was shot by armed police officers on the Tube...  "A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers. Passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen an Asian man shot five times by "plain-clothes police officers" with a handgun. ... If this turns out to be true and substantiated by an official press release, in a way I'm really quite surprised. I always thought that our police force's mantra was not shoot to kill and ask questions later, shoot to disable and detain at the most extreme, I've always considered our police force's bearing of arms as a preventative deterrent more than anything else. Looks like times are a-changing and I'm getting left behind... I can't wait to see what kind of backlash we'll be hearing from the civil liberties and human rights organisations (and the ethnic communities to boot, especially if it transpires the man was actually innocent but just running scared, or wanted for something else but was scared and bolted)... Oh well, I still have unerring faith in my country's police force, when push comes to shove. Technorati tags: London bombs 21st of July police shoot man Tube report Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 7/22/2005 11:30:00 AM. Roughly. Blog ID: 112202820756297098· | Permalink |
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