Stockwell Shooting
Ok, let's look at it this way. A guy of non-white origin ( for that seems to be the distinction nowadays). Is told by a gang of casually dressed guys, looking not indistinct from a bunch of football hooligans, to stop. Making a quick judgement call he decides that they are a bunch of thugs out to beat him up for looking too middle eastern, so he legs it to the place where he is going to feel more safe, in the tube station. Ideally he can make it to the train to get away from these thugs intent on beating him up. Having seen these plain clothed special officers on TV, I would run too if they were chasing me, I'd rather take that chance than get beaten up. The rest, for the unfortuante young man, we know.
The police are tipped off that someone connected to the terrorist attacks in London lives in a house in Tulse hill. They track someone from that building almost as far as the tube then decide to aprehend him before he goes in. The guy is wearing a heavy coat for such warm weather, there could very well be a bomb underneath. They shout at him to stop, he ignores them and runs, scared. The adrenalin rushes and the police pursue the man into the station. Now they are thinking, they must be thinking this man IS carrying a bomb. Are they in a position to shoot him in the head from a distance? No. Are they brave enough to get so close to someone who they genuinely believe is carrying a bomb? No. because there is a risk to their life if they get within feet of him. If this guy is carrying a bomb why doesn't he detonate it? and if he is waiting for the police to get closer before he detonates surely he could have done that outside. But things are happening fast, there is no time for logic. None of this, "put your hands where i can see them" .
Two mistakes happened on Friday. An innocent man chose to run from a gang of men he thought (rightly) were intent on doing him harm.
A group of police officers murdered* someone they wrongly thought intended to do them and others harm.
So what happens now? Unless someone is so obviously a police officer anyone challenged by a gang of plain clothes police is quite rightly going to try and run for there very lives because if they will believe that if these particular type of police suspect you and catch you, they will kill you.
* five shots at point blank range to the head is not manslaughter it is an execution, and exceution without trial, judge, jury or evidence. It took the police a few hours to suspect the guy and another few hours to completely absolve him of any involvment in terrorism. Showing how fickle their evidence must have been in the first place.
The police are tipped off that someone connected to the terrorist attacks in London lives in a house in Tulse hill. They track someone from that building almost as far as the tube then decide to aprehend him before he goes in. The guy is wearing a heavy coat for such warm weather, there could very well be a bomb underneath. They shout at him to stop, he ignores them and runs, scared. The adrenalin rushes and the police pursue the man into the station. Now they are thinking, they must be thinking this man IS carrying a bomb. Are they in a position to shoot him in the head from a distance? No. Are they brave enough to get so close to someone who they genuinely believe is carrying a bomb? No. because there is a risk to their life if they get within feet of him. If this guy is carrying a bomb why doesn't he detonate it? and if he is waiting for the police to get closer before he detonates surely he could have done that outside. But things are happening fast, there is no time for logic. None of this, "put your hands where i can see them" .
Two mistakes happened on Friday. An innocent man chose to run from a gang of men he thought (rightly) were intent on doing him harm.
A group of police officers murdered* someone they wrongly thought intended to do them and others harm.
So what happens now? Unless someone is so obviously a police officer anyone challenged by a gang of plain clothes police is quite rightly going to try and run for there very lives because if they will believe that if these particular type of police suspect you and catch you, they will kill you.
* five shots at point blank range to the head is not manslaughter it is an execution, and exceution without trial, judge, jury or evidence. It took the police a few hours to suspect the guy and another few hours to completely absolve him of any involvment in terrorism. Showing how fickle their evidence must have been in the first place.
posted by Felix at 4:45 PM
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