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British cops take their gloves off - big time...

From the BBC website...

<font color=yellow>Mr Whitby, told BBC News: "I was sitting on the train reading my paper.

"I heard a load of noise, people saying, 'Get out, get down'!

"I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers.

"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him.

"I saw the gun being fired five times into the guy - he's dead."</font id=yellow>

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You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

yep the british are not definitely not playing by spain's rules.

From the way the guy describes it, it's murder. I have nothing against it, but it seems that if they all piled up on him, they should have been able to apprehend him. I wasn't there though, so I can't really judge if he was a threat (trying to blow up his bomb) or not.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

The UK Muslim council is already bitching about this, demanding an explanation.

Here's your explanation:

He's a failed suicide bomber, and was shot like the dog that he is.

M'kay?

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BR: You're full of crap on this one.

He's been chased for at least 200 mtrs by up to 20 cops all of them shouting for him to stop and he didn't.

In the current situation London finds itself, that makes you guilty...

He got what he deserves.

But I will admit, this is a first for the standard UK armed police.

To pile on top of a guy and to blow him away with extreme and up-close violence is fairly unique...

But they do have new rules of engagement, if there is any chance the suspect might be a suicide bomber, it's three shots to the head.

Snipe: You've got a lovely way with words that cuts through all the bull...

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

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From the way the guy describes it, it's murder. I have nothing against it, but it seems that if they all piled up on him, they should have been able to apprehend him. I wasn't there though, so I can't really judge if he was a threat (trying to blow up his bomb) or not.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI
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Good work on Britains part stopping a runner and possible suicide bomber, especially if the way they handled him appalled someone in the IDF. <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Edited by - Lunatock on Jul 22 2005 09:54 AM

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Tock,

That's <b>so</b> true...

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You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

aw poor baby. I just can not imagine dirty harry with a british accent. though it was a bloody good shoot.

good execution of rules and the guy, 3 shots is good but survivable 5 is very unlikely

the object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his

The rule seem simple shoot to kill prevent a bomber from having any chance of sucess. I like the policy

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Edited by - boomer on Jul 23 2005 02:02 AM

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good job!

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I was actually wondering if anybody in any of the countries WT covers knows of a similar incident involving their police (not elite AT units).

More details are coming out and then immediately getting hushed up.

Apparently the guy got five rounds to the head whilst on the floor.

Now don't get me wrong, I fully support what was done, but I've never heard of anything like this before at home or abroad.

I've read about plenty of gun fights where police have unloaded into a perp, but never whilst the BG was held down on the ground and hit 5 times in the head.

If the above is true (and the fact that it's not been repeated on the mass media probably means it is) it's got to elevate UK Special Branch pretty high up the "The World's Hard-ass cops" league table.

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

think of it this way. if the man has a detonator, what would you prefer a dead perp or on stuggling to get to the trigger.

we had a terrorist of the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion, NOT Royal Air Force...) shot in 1993 by the german GSG9 (the anti-terror unit).
His name was Wolfgang Grams. The GSG9 was suspected of having executed him.

http://www.fecl.org/circular/2209.htm

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5 warning shots to the temple...excellent! Nice to see that there's something else we share with our cousins, when righteously P.O.

And another thing- this is what's called proactive, not reactive. Something cops don't get a chance to do very often. Buy those blokes a pint on me.

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Edited by - 30mike-mike on Jul 23 2005 07:18 AM

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I firmly believe in welcoming them to allah early so they can inherit there 70 eight year old jewish virgins.

It's rumored that Pablo Escobar was killed by a US sniper execution style. I of course know nothing about any of that though.

Compared to the Columbian Seach Bloq, all cops are wusses.

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think of it this way. if the man has a detonator, what would you prefer a dead perp or on stuggling to get to the trigger.


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Pretty much. The incident in London seems remarkably similair to Jake Busey's death scene in Contact, except nobody that tackled his character had an MP-5 to unload into his noggin.

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That's what I was saying. I said I have no problem with it, but some ACLU (or the British equivalent) is gonna end up getting a whole bunch of good cops fired!

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???

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4711021.stm

Seems the guy shot was a Brazilian not connected with the bombings.

Tough call here. Obviously a mistake. I mean, police don't normally shoot someone running away, but provision is made (in the US at least) that if it is reasonably believed that the person running away will be committing harm or injury to others, they can shoot. Why this man ran may never be known, but with the events of that day that were happening at that time, and this man begins running while the police ask him to halt, then IMO they reasonably believed the threat to be there, even though it wasn't. Tragic indeed.

BR that was allah's cruel bate and switch

No, a cruel bate and switch would be 70 Virginians instead of virgins.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

The five shots to the cranium were to Insult his mother at the funeral.

Its Natures way of saying. "Exterminated"

"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see their near and dear bathed in tears, to ride their horses and sleep on the white bellies of their wives and daughters."
-Genghis Khan

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he should have stopped for the police.