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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.BDW - "why were these people not protesting against Muslim terrorists....."
One good reason - becasue people don't know who to protest to - terrorists by their nature don't advertise their headquarters......unless of course you are assuming that all Muslims are terrorists, and people should demonstrate outside Mosques.
Incidentally, i beleive people did demonstrate as best they could against the bombings by having a silence on 14/7/05.
Of course I am not assuming all Muslims are terrorists. In the same way I do not assume all Irish men are members of the IRA. I feel ashamed to be English sometimes, when I see the pathetic reaction from ill educated idiotic morons who think that attacking someone's culture / religion because of a few dissidents, will solve anything.
True true Mullein! (And welcome, by the way!)
One can't help but remember that he really shouldn't have still been in the country in the first place, and if he'd been home in Brazil, he would never have been shot by British police. Obviously the Brazilian police may have shot him, that does seem to happen a lot!!!
I agree with acw, it seems that everyone is there to point the finger and fault the police force but would you want to do it?
I wouldn't even consider being a CBO on my own estate, let alone an armed officer in the midst of a terrorist attack.
The Officers made a tragic mistake in shooting Mr Menesez (sp?), but they had to make a split second decision.
I back the pollice force 100%, but the only thing I've found really odd was the amount of times they shot him in the head. Surely as a trained armed officer you should be able to take someone down with one shot especially if there are two other officers holding the 'offender' down?
Natalie - I had wondered about that - but there's a simple answer: if two or more officers shoot to kill at the same moment, you will never know who actually killed the person. That way no-one can be blamed. The background is in tort law, but it has criminal law applicability too.
It's standard practice. Think of The Green Mile and how they all took a part in the executions - that way no single person had committed the murder.
Two years I was arrested for something I did not. The case against me was eventually dropped. I subsequently complained to the relevant parties, and investigations were conducted. The version of events differs greatly between mine, and those of the arresting officers. They cannot prove that I was wrong, but neither can I they.
The man is dead - i.e. not coming back, ever, per se, period. The only people who know what happened are those that were that there. We were not there, so we do not know what happened. A sad loss of life but these things happen.