that bloke the police shot

[DMR]

old news that he was fuck all to do with terrorists; he was an electrician

loads of people are expressing sympathy for the policeman in question

it's emerged that he shot him 5 times- and that makes me very angry

that's excessive, terrorist or not, and there were 3 policemen there, why shoot him at all, 3 on 1 for fucks sake, no need to shoot

send him down

[Dazzza]

He was down at the time according to eye witness reports.

Must have considered at the time that he was high risk especially legging it onto the underground.

Don't think it was a copper either more than likely security forces.  

They where shooting to kill no doubt about it.

[hansgruber]

can't shoot at his body if you think he's got a bomb strapped to his chest can you?

And 3 on 1's no good if one of them is nuts enough to blow themselves to kingdom come.

[Onion_Jimbo]

if they think hes going to blow himself up theres not a lot of good arresting him is there? if he runs away onto a train and was looking dodgy shooting him dead is better than blowing up a train

[DMR]

if they think hes going to blow himself up theres not a lot of good arresting him is there? if he runs away onto a train and was looking dodgy shooting him dead is better than blowing up a train

nonsense

there wouldn't be any chav's left unslaughtered if this is the case

[magicroundabout]

i'm totally behind the police on this.
Like they say you can't shoot them in the body cos they could still detonate the bomb. You can't restrain them cos they could still detonate the bomb so the only thing to do is shoot in the head.
Ok 5 times maybe abit excesive but they needed to kill him.

Apparently now though some reports have said the police didn't tell him they were police and that he was running cos all he saw was 5 men (plain clothed police) with guns. Personally i don't believe that. They must have told him they were police yet he still chose to run.

[stfc11]

Anyone could chase you and shout police, i know many people wouldn't! But if he had people after him or something for some other reason, he would just run to be on the safe side if you get what i mean. i'm not saying the police were in the wrong i think they had a lot of reason's to believe he had a bomb. But i don't think they went the right way about approaching him, not that there is a right way to approach someone you think is carrying a bomb!!! so a pointless post, but i hope you get what i'm trying to say!!!

[TalkTalk]

Also completely with the police and authorities as well. Given the prevailing atmosphere in London, you would have to be insane to run away from anybody who shouted "Police - STOP", particularly in a tube station. There's a Beeb report today which says he had overstayed his Student Visa and was working as an electrician, which might account for the fleeing.

So you only run away if you are guilty of something perhaps? How about:

"Lord Ahmed said some sections of the Muslim community were afraid they could also become a victim of mistaken identity.

"I've been to Bradford, Birmingham and Sheffield during the weekend and people are very concerned," he said.

Lord Ahmed also said it was possible illegal immigrants would run if challenged by the police.

"We know that there are many thousands or hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and if they're challenged by the police, they're not going to stand there and produce their ID, they obviously will try and run.

"And whilst we need to catch those illegal immigrants or asylum seekers, nevertheless we can't shoot them because they're not terrorists.

Anyone with dark skin who was running for a bus or Tube could be thought to be about to detonate a bomb, he said."

(From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4714027.stm )

[magicroundabout]

i know what you mean there stfc11, .
waiting until he got to the tube to stop him when they could have done so back at his house where they first started following him. Plus there would be less people there to harm if he did have a bomb.

[Sippo]

If the police had suspicions and the public was at risk then surely they have to act, and the only way they were going to save 'innocent' people was to take action. The only action you can take is to shoot him in the head. I guarantee that if he was a terrorist none of these doubts/accusations in error would be brought up.

[Piemonte]

this is bollocks. if armed police tell you to stop then you stop -unless you're some retarded brazillian aparantly

[Asher]

Im with piemonte!

[walrus]

Definitely.  In the current climate, you do not run away from armed police officers.  He must have had something to hide, and had the police officer not done his job and the Brazillian had killed many innocent civillians there'd have been uproar.  The public need to get behind the people trying to protect us from terrorists rather than questioning their every action.

[Asher]

Fuck me walrus that is practically teh first post from you I have agreed with
! Im shocked

[DMR]

He ran therefore he automatically deserved to have his fucking brains spread out?

Yeah that's top logic