Teenage Boy Killed In Samurai Sword Incident

[bednobs]

just terrible

[naomi24]

^He doesn't have to be from an ethnic minority to be Muslim.  They come in all flavours.  Just saying.

[Peter Pedant]

sane people seldom go out with samurai swords, let alone use them on strangers.

in criminal law, this has been tried - "you have to be mad for arson - no one sets fire to a  building and stands around waiting to be arrested" - Judges didnt like it - - may be mad  but not  mad enough

Jesus he had a big one.... big sword you dirty boys - looked like a scimitar or one of the swords the Turks carried around 1650-1700

I am sure the injured p'licemen are asking - why did TAU shoot him?

[Peter Pedant]

muslim converts can be madder than the home-grown sort - a bit like a roman catholic convert - god they take doctrine seriously

[grumpy01]

Likely another long term cannabis user.Government should be trying harder to eradicate its use.

[retrocop]

Apparently he wasn't a maniac according to AH. eh?

[ichkeria]

I can't believe people think the police should have shot this guy dead. If he had a gun certainly. Tasering was surely the right option here. Not having been present 

[retrocop]

Ichkeria

The rules of engagement for armed police is that they can shoot any person who is a likely threat or has caused death or injury with a weapon.That includes protecting their own lives and that of others.A weapon is not solely confined to firearms but can include,bladed weapons ,petrol bombs,baseball bats etc etc.. Any thing used in a lethal manner.

[Peter Pedant]

I can't believe people think the police should have shot this guy dead.

Ya shoot a mayd dawg doncha?

Considering two police were hurt I am amazed they didnt shoot him. BUT - it took 20 min to arrive ( unlike London Bridge when it was 45 s innit - knife only and didnt  he get shot?) - and Hungerford ( 3 days).

Clearly as at the end, if he is waggling his scimitar ( snicker-snee) atop a garage you cant very well say anyone's life is in  danger.

[Peter Pedant]

unny it is not illegal to own any sword

are you sure about that?  isnt it a bladed article with a blade longer than 3 1/2 inches?

[Peter Pedant]

he 2019 legislation adds to those conditions that the very possession of such a sword is now prohibited under law. 

OK a kitchen knife - OK so long it is in the kitchen - but  that is not really the point is it?

[choux]

bednobs is correct. The wrong place at the wrong time. If this was a non-targetted offence how much more terribile can such a death be? RIP young child.

[Toorak]

Choux - good to see you posting. I hope all I well. 

[Toorak]

Apologies for the digression

[Peter Pedant]

Thank God in this case, they ( Beeb, police, prefects, head masters, ministers - both of the church and govt) have realised that before charging, you can speculate and circulate videos ad lib. AB mods please note

[Ellipsis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68932942

The teenage boy who died in the Hainault sword attack has been named as Daniel Anjorin ... Daniel went to Bancroft's, the same independent day school where Grace O'Malley-Kumar, one of the Nottingham stabbing victims, attended.

Poor kids, and what a horrific coincidence for the school ...

[Mozz71]

A little black kid murdered by a white skinned maniac. 

 

[retrocop]

A 17 year old arrested in a school in Sheffield today for injuring teachers and a pupil presumably with a bladed weapon. Investigated for attempting murder.

How many more knife rimes donee have to read about before the handwringing do- gooders concede their social experiment just does not work. I am sure the sight of these knife wielding thugs swinging from a gibbet will turn their blood to ice and focus their minds that possession of a knife in a public place without reasonable excuse will end up bad for them.

[sandyRoe]

I don't think we're ever going back to the death penalty.

If we accept that how are we to persuade knife carriers to stop?

[Untitled]

which social experiment are you referring to retrocop?

[retrocop]

The failed social experiment that allows vicious cowardly thugs free reign to killland maim anyone they choose with a paltry prison sentence. Murder is out of control these days and the death penalty will reduce it drastically imv