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sesquipedality) wrote2005-07-25 12:50 am
sesquipedality) wrote2005-07-25 12:50 am
Controversial
A man, possibly wearing bulky clothing, leaves a house under investigation in connection with terrorist bombings of the underground. When he enters the station he is warned by armed police to halt. He jumps over a ticket barrier and onto a train. He is shot dead.
Without knowing the full set of circumstances, it is impossible to know for sure what happened. What we do know is that the British police licensed to carry firearms operate under extremely paranoid firearms regulations and are all extremely rigorously trained.
I'd have shot under the circumstances as they appear to be. Proper process is a lovely idea in wishy-washy land, but it's almost certain they had good reason to believe he was about to blow up that train. He ran away from armed police who told him to halt. It is regretable that he died but his actions seem to have been pretty much indistinguishable from those of a suicide bomber. He was, it would appear, killed by his own stupidity.
This tragedy could easily have been prevented. All the man had to do was get down on the floor when the armed policemen told him to. I want to live in a world where we don't give the benefit of the doubt to people who appear to be about to commit mass murder. It's better than one where we have to explain to thousands of families and friends why the police saw the bomber getting on the train and didn't stop him.
Without knowing the full set of circumstances, it is impossible to know for sure what happened. What we do know is that the British police licensed to carry firearms operate under extremely paranoid firearms regulations and are all extremely rigorously trained.
I'd have shot under the circumstances as they appear to be. Proper process is a lovely idea in wishy-washy land, but it's almost certain they had good reason to believe he was about to blow up that train. He ran away from armed police who told him to halt. It is regretable that he died but his actions seem to have been pretty much indistinguishable from those of a suicide bomber. He was, it would appear, killed by his own stupidity.
This tragedy could easily have been prevented. All the man had to do was get down on the floor when the armed policemen told him to. I want to live in a world where we don't give the benefit of the doubt to people who appear to be about to commit mass murder. It's better than one where we have to explain to thousands of families and friends why the police saw the bomber getting on the train and didn't stop him.
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