We still have NO reports that state that the police identified themselves as such. The official word is that the police later stated that they confronted him and he "did not obey." Assume that maybe they didn't identify themselves, that they walked up to him showed him a gun and said "Hey you!" In that case he SHOULD have run. We're talking 20 guys, some of them armed with machine guns. He could have thought that they were there to kill him and not even known they were police officers-- his only chance to get away was to catch a train. Maybe they said they were the police but he didn't believe them, since the police generally don't have 20 guys with machine guns chase him.
All they would have had to do is use a uniformed police officer. Then there would have been little doubt that the guys with the guns were police. The fact is, they keep blaming the victim and so do you. It is not the victim's fault. They are not willing to even examine the incident and determine if the officers failed to identify themselves as police officers or if they could have handled the confrontation stage better. He did not act like a suicide bomber once inside the building if the police did identify themselves as police and told him to stop. He should not even have been allowed into the building and it would have been easy to plan to stop him at the entrance. They followed him and knew what bus he was on. The organized 20 officers with machine guns on the site. But they didn't get those officers between him and the train station. At which point, the police's best option was to not identify themselves as police, since a suicide bomber would have set off the bomb at that point. I'm not arguing that the policy is wholly incorrect but it was clearly applied incorrectly in this case. The least they could do is determine what they could have done better. On 7/25/05, Howie Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to what I've read Scottland Yard has been getting help from Israel > and other nations that have dealt with suicide bombers and they were told > that the only way to deal with a suicide bomber is to shoot them in the head. > Now, I know that the person shot on Friday was not a suicide bomber, but he > should not have run from the police. One of his relatives was interviewed > and he stated that most everyone would run from the police. Maybe in Brazil > that's true but not in Britain or most other countries. > > The person that the police were following fit the general description of a > bomber - heavy clothing for the season, irratic behavior and, finally, > running from the police. The police had a split-second decision to make and > they made it. Unfortunately, they were wrong but they were doing their best > to protect the public. > > Bottom line - he should not have run. -- "You can't destroy EVERYthing. Where would you sit?" The Tick Now blogging.... http://www.blivit.org/blog/index.cfm http://www.blivit.org/mr_urc/index.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166147 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
