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Default Police group OKs shooting suicide bombers in head - 08-04-2005, 10:46 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050804/ts_ ... y_force_dc


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Default 08-04-2005, 10:50 PM

Im fine with that but wtf shot an electrician in the head?


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Default 08-04-2005, 10:58 PM

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Im fine with that but wtf shot an electrician in the head?
well i dont know about you , but when i see policeman running at me with guns drawn my first reaction would be to listen to everything they say , alot of things went wrong that day , but the dude that got shot wasnt really following what normal people would do
  
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Default 08-04-2005, 11:05 PM

the guy ran from police, jumped turnstyle(spelling?), and bolted towards a train, fuck man those stupid pussy hippy fucks complain about everything. I'm glad they shot him, I hope they do it again, they got the fucker before he reached the train, this is good news.
  
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Default 08-04-2005, 11:14 PM

taking a life to save lots more. the guy was going to die either way, so it doesnt matter, so long as he doesnt take people with him.


  
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Default 08-05-2005, 12:22 AM

It's about fuckin' time !!


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Default 08-05-2005, 12:25 AM

The thing with cops, and not the London situation, is that they need to make split second decisions. It's easy to critisize the aftermath of such an effect when you don't have to make it.

As for the London thing, the guy ran and acted suspicious and due to the fact that they just had 2 very large bombs go off, they weren't taking any chances.

I guess as morbid as this sounds, shit happens and you deal with it/move on.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 01:34 AM

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taking a life to save lots more. the guy was going to die either way, so it doesnt matter, so long as he doesnt take people with him.
ok dude i got the first part, but you need to read the article before posting a reply to it. He wasn't a suicide bomber.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 01:35 AM

[quote="Airborne Butters":32e2f]I guess as morbid as this sounds, shit happens and you deal with it/move on.[/quote:32e2f]

Not at all, that's actually very intelligent. If more people felt that way perhaps society wouldn't be such a cluster fuck.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 03:17 AM

Think about this logically. You are a London Policeman. Your Country has been attacked recently by Terrorists, specifically the Tube Stations. You see a guy, who is foreign in appearance (by Foreign, i mean not Anglo), acting suspiciously inside a Tube Station. You also notice he has wires and assorted shit hanging out of his rucksack. You approach him, and he begins to run. What do you do?

In my opinion, it would have been irresponsible for them NOT to shoot him. It's gotta be a 1 in 100 shot that an innocent person would react like that in that circumstance. It's a shitty situation, but the guy brought it upon himself.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 05:18 AM

If the police had been doing their jobs, they would have known who the terrorist suspects were and who the innocents were. In England private ownership of guns is illegal, and uniformed policeman don't carry guns. Suddenly a plain clothes guy starts waving a gun around yelling "STOP you bugger!" I would run away too, fearing that a robbery was about to take place. I'd run toward the most crowded place I could find, as generally speaking criminals like to work without witnesses.

They shot an innocent man to death and you guys want to give them a medal. That is really sad.


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Default 08-05-2005, 05:34 AM

It's more that I simply don't care.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 05:50 AM

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If the police had been doing their jobs, they would have known who the terrorist suspects were and who the innocents were. In England private ownership of guns is illegal, and uniformed policeman don't carry guns. Suddenly a plain clothes guy starts waving a gun around yelling "STOP you bugger!" I would run away too, fearing that a robbery was about to take place. I'd run toward the most crowded place I could find, as generally speaking criminals like to work without witnesses.

They shot an innocent man to death and you guys want to give them a medal. That is really sad.
I agree and feel very weird.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 05:56 AM

[quote:28ef3]If the police had been doing their jobs, they would have known who the terrorist suspects were and who the innocents were.[/quote:28ef3]
If the Police knew that, they would be wasting their mind-reading talents.

[quote:28ef3]In England private ownership of guns is illegal, and uniformed policeman don't carry guns. Suddenly a plain clothes guy starts waving a gun around yelling "STOP you bugger!"[/quote:28ef3]
How many robbers have you heard of that rob people in the middle of crowded Tube stations, at gunpoint, shouting "STOP you bugger!"?

[quote:28ef3]I would run away too, fearing that a robbery was about to take place. I'd run toward the most crowded place I could find, as generally speaking criminals like to work without witnesses.[/quote:28ef3]
He was in the most crowded place. And for the record, running away from people with guns is generally a bad idea. It makes them panic and increases trigger-happiness.

[quote:28ef3]They shot an innocent man to death and you guys want to give them a medal. That is really sad.[/quote:28ef3]
It was a 1 in 100 chance that all of these circumstances would come together this terribly. It would have been worse if it was an actual suicide bomber, and they hesitated. Let's cut the bullshit for a moment; This guy was an idiot. What sort of person, considering the security climate in Britain right now, would run away from an armed Police Officer?

I'm not saying he deserved to die for his stupidity, but he didn't do himself any favours.
  
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Default 08-05-2005, 06:04 AM

But they caught him, pinned him down and shot him in the head 5 times... That's an execution, not stopping a terrorist. If they shot him in the head while he was running to stop him then the situation might be different.

Shoot to stop = shit happens
stop then execute = fucked up


  
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