ChatterBank1 min ago
3 months detention with no charge.....
Is that what they are proposing??. Doesn't 8 bullets in the head from close range after a surveillance operation sound the better option.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree with you Dom Tuk. It's a shame the police killed an innocent man but we are at war and he was a unfortunately a casualty of war. If the police suspect someone of being a terrorist, they have no other option than to shoot to kill. There is simply no other way. The public cant be put at risk just so as not to upset some people. The safety of hundreds or thousands of people are more important than the human rights act!
Dont be silly, You know what I mean. It was not a question of colour or race. I for one believe it was a genuine mistake. But let's not kid ourselves, the majority of islamic terrorists are off a certain ethnicity. Thats not being rascist, it's a fact. So therefore, others who may get shot dead in the future will also (most probably) be of that ethnicity. That dose'nt mean that the police have got it in for anyone of a particular colour or creed, it means they have got it in for terrorists who just happen (Most Probably) to be of a darker skin. Lets stop being babies about it, and show them some support. Playing the race card all the time will only hamper the police from doing their job. Let's just hope that in future they kill the right people (Whatever the colour). Seems like some of you have got it in for the police more than the terrorists.
Magicbeatle, I'd argue very strongly that the police have a plethora of alternatives to shooting terrorists. Stockwell station was (from what I've been able to piece together from numerous, sometimes conflicting, news reports) an understandable reaction by police officers on the ground to flawed intelligence, suspicious behaviour and a disjointed anti-terrorism policy, in a climate of media-heightened paranoia � and, as such, unique.
Take away certain of those factors � say, if instead of de Menezes running away from the police into a Tube station, he'd lain prone on the floor and co-operated � and I'd say shooting him dead would have been an extremely bad judgment call, regardless of whether he was a suspected terrorist or not.
Take away certain of those factors � say, if instead of de Menezes running away from the police into a Tube station, he'd lain prone on the floor and co-operated � and I'd say shooting him dead would have been an extremely bad judgment call, regardless of whether he was a suspected terrorist or not.
Let's look at this from the police's point. It's 8 days after terrorists set off five bombs in London (four in tube stations), killing over 50 people. And 1 day after terrorists attempted to set of 5 bombs in London (four in tube stations) meaning to kill more people. They follow someone from a block of flats that they have under surveylance. With the jacket that he's wearing he could quite easily be concealing explosives (after all, everyone is now looking for rucksacks, and they have to get the bombs to the targets with as little suspicion as possible). He makes his way to a tube station. The police approach him. He has 2 choices. Stop or run.
So he runs, onto a tube train. The police have 2 choices. 1. Kill him now, or 2. wait until he's detonated a bomb and killed a few more people.
If the police had taken the second choice we would all be screaming 'Why didn't they shoot the b@stard?'
If you act like a terrorist expect to be treated like one.
Sometimes people make bad decisions.
In my opinion, the police didn't make a bad decision, Menezes did.
So he runs, onto a tube train. The police have 2 choices. 1. Kill him now, or 2. wait until he's detonated a bomb and killed a few more people.
If the police had taken the second choice we would all be screaming 'Why didn't they shoot the b@stard?'
If you act like a terrorist expect to be treated like one.
Sometimes people make bad decisions.
In my opinion, the police didn't make a bad decision, Menezes did.
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