In the UK it is sometimes necessary for police to shoot members of the public and even one of their own. These are unusual events and the general plan follows Max Senate's Keystone Cops blueprint. We find the bungling 'hidden' behind the 'utmost standards of professionalism' reassuring. The general pattern is as follows:
1. A hectic car chase done for safety reasons and to avoid such dangerous tactics as sticking a gun in the back of a walking criminal and saying 'you're nicked Pal'. 2. A defensive ramming attack known as a hard stop, followed by loud shouts to confuse the hardened criminals bristling with high-tec machine guns. All CCTV fails at this point. 3. Suspects are shot and as note sent to the press that they were firing at brave officers protecting the public. Any public at the scene is dispersed for its own protection once the shooting stops. 4. Some years later, after an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission clears all officers and various normal due process like inquests have been avoided, we discover police evidence is entirely inconsistent with some overlooked recording missed by the highly professional IPCC. 5. The shooting officer is then put on trial 10 years after the event. The jury rejects the case on the grounds the officer was just doing his best and was worried he would be late home for his tea, even if he discharged 22 shots and tried to pistol-whip an innocent guy to death owing to his poor aim and having run out of ammunition. Various suspect guns turn out to be non-existent or crude replicas or converted starting pistols. 6. Police are accused of racism, even though they are entirely fair in random choice of victims, even to the point of shooting one of their own point blank with a shotgun in training. 7. At any given point there will be an ongoing enquiry into such a killing to learn the lessons obvious for 50 years. In Ferguson, more police ammunition has been expended on 'troublemakers' than in the UK annual season. The cover up processes seem far less secretive in the colonies and completed (admittedly as effectively) in outrageous haste compared with tired and trusted delay in the old country. Your provision of no justice in a few months rather than after several decades here may set very disturbing precedents. I'm rather bored by the scenario, wondering why we burn down Taco Bell and not the banks and parliaments. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
