Man shot dead by police in London

[frisky]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706787.stm

Man shot dead by police on Tube
Stockwell Tube station
Police have cordoned off a 200-metre area around the station
A man has been shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London, as officers hunt four bombing suspects.

Passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen a man of Asian appearance shot five times by "plain-clothes police officers" with a handgun.

BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said there were unconfirmed reports officers at the scene had said the man shot was the Oval bomb suspect.

And armed police have cordoned off an area of Harrow Road in west London.

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Looked like another suicide bomber - but at this time tension can be high and wrong choices are easily made... We'll see what happens in the investigation. This concerns me:

They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

Sure there was a reason but I'd like to hear it... London is my hometown and I feel so sad about whats happenning...
f.

[toasty]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

This concerns me:

They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

Sure there was a reason but I'd like to hear it... London is my hometown and I feel so sad about whats happenning...
f.

From what I gather, they had been tracking this guy and had ID'd him as one of the suspects (as opposed to profiling or something), which makes the fact that they killed him really odd. I would think he would have more value to them alive.

The story is still so fresh and facts continue to come in. I've going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that either the chronology is incorrect (i.e., that he wasn't shot after he was captured) or that there was something else that we're missing...

[asdf_admin]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

i read about that ... pretty strange.

[Hos]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

This concerns me:

They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

Sure there was a reason but I'd like to hear it... London is my hometown and I feel so sad about whats happenning...
f.

From what I gather, they had been tracking this guy and had ID'd him as one of the suspects (as opposed to profiling or something), which makes the fact that they killed him really odd. I would think he would have more value to them alive.

The story is still so fresh and facts continue to come in. I've going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that either the chronology is incorrect (i.e., that he wasn't shot after he was captured) or that there was something else that we're missing...

this isn't 24! he was wearing a winter jacket on the tube...suspected to be carrying a bomb belt.

5 shots were fired because the police were using low-velocity .22 bullets. you need to fire off a few shots to make sure. all head shots too. the guy was tracked and suspected to be armed. of course i hope they didn't screw up.

[Pataky P]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

I heard this news.... :cry: I hate the terrorism!

[toasty]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

From what I gather, they had been tracking this guy and had ID'd him as one of the suspects (as opposed to profiling or something), which makes the fact that they killed him really odd. I would think he would have more value to them alive.

The story is still so fresh and facts continue to come in. I've going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that either the chronology is incorrect (i.e., that he wasn't shot after he was captured) or that there was something else that we're missing...

Well, I guess this is what I get for listening to CNN...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050723/ap_on_re_eu/britain_underground_46

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[fletcher]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

And today i hear he has nothing to do with this weeks bombings, great!

[beto]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

of course i hope they didn't screw up.

Guess what, they did.

They will also be asking why someone lying on the floor and apparently offering no resistance was shot, according to eyewitnesses, five times in the head.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711779.stm

[asautto]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

The guy was brazilian

[asdf_admin]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

I am not sure why he was running. No doubt the Police are on edge, but to blast five rounds into a head ... well I would think a shot in the shoulder would be enough to put a man down. Perhaps he had a "her-O" syndrome ... either case terrible news. Reminds of the little baby girl that got blasted here in USA ...

fuckwads. :?

[FM]

guess the police aren't too edgy these days...

[horsack]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

This concerns me:

They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

true

[Kamal]

its been all over the news here, pretty fucked up, cant believe that the police would be so reckless / careless. Why the fuck aren't local law enforcement agencies working with the intelligence community on profiling these terrorists instead of looking at circumstantial visual assessments of a situation and blowing people in the heads.

This is sort of like the NYC cops who dropped 44 rounds into that Jamaican immigrant because he had in his hand what appeared to be a gun when it was in fact a pager..... unecessary use of force and liberal use of judgement

-e-

[CSquare]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

it has to be a tough time over there. the cops made a huge mistake but they're pretty much in a no win situation. everytime something happens, the public wonders why they didn't do something. when they do something, they kill an innocent man.

[hansh20]

Re: Man shot dead by police in London

it has to be a tough time over there. the cops made a huge mistake but they're pretty much in a no win situation. everytime something happens, the public wonders why they didn't do something. when they do something, they kill an innocent man.

this is usually called inefficiency