racial profiling
 

damn,it sucks to be muslin in london these days.the police are on a "shoot-to-kill policy" right now so i'm sure this won't be the last lamentable mistake.

Man Killed in London Not Linked to Blasts

LONDON - Police identified the man who was chased down in a subway and shot to death by plainclothes officers as a Brazilian and expressed regret Saturday for his death, saying they no longer believed he was tied to the recent terror bombings.


Friday's shooting before horrified commuters prompted criticism of police for overreacting and expressions of fear that Asians and Muslims would be targeted by a "trigger-happy culture" after two well-coordinated attacks in two weeks.

The man shot at the Stockwell subway station was identified as Jean Charles de Menezes, 27. Witnesses said he was wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground and shot him in the head and torso.

Hours after the shooting, Police Commissioner Ian Blair said the victim was "directly linked" to the investigations into attacks Thursday and July 7. In the latter, suicide bombings on trains and a bus killed 56 people, including four attackers.

Police initially said the victim attracted police attention because he left a house that was under surveillance after Thursday's bungled bombings, in which devices planted on three subway trains and a double-decker bus failed to detonate properly. Stockwell is near Oval station, one of those targeted.

"He was then followed by surveillance officers to the station. His clothing and his behavior at the station added to their suspicions," police said Friday.

But Saturday, a police official said on condition of anonymity that Menezes was "not believed to be connected in any way to any of the London bombings." The official requested anonymity because no official announcement had been made.

"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets," a spokesman said on condition of anonymity, which is police policy.

for more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050723/...in_underground

i wonder why they shot him 8 times

are suicide bombers like ultra strong and can withstand a couple of rounds to the head or something so they had to make sure?

I thought police don't have guns in England?

And why is this the first I've heard of it? Admittedly I haven't really been paying attention to the news or the board a whole lot the last couple days, but damn if only this happened in the States... this board would be on fire!

don't want to be shot?
don't run from police with your napsack on your back a week after a bombing.

He was probably guilty of something or would be eventually anyway

56 People were murdered.
56 families will never see their loved ones again.
Countless children will not grow up with their father or mother.
Countless people were so badly injured and maimed that their quality of life just went down the shitter.

With all of this tragedy, the retarded tree fucking press and their hero Ken "The Fucktard" Livingstone are crying about the only British Police blunder in the past 20 years.

Forget the fact that the dude was wearing a heavy coat in the middle of July.
Forget the fact that the dude was running from the police (plain clothes)
Forget the fact that the dude was running from 2 uniformed police officers.
Forget the fact that the dude was doing all of the above in a city in a state of terror.
Forget the fact that everyone including Ken Livingshit and his tree fuckers would have been screaming for the head of the Police chief if the dude would have turned out to be a bomber and had taken out more innocent civilians.

Oh, Anti-terrorism training 0101 states that if you are dealing with a "potential" suicide bomber, you shall shoot to kill, preferably in the head to avoid the "potential" suicide bomber to have enough time to detonate him/herself...

nuff said

he was in England illegally, that's why he prob ran away from the cops

It also tells you not to pin the guy on the ground before you shoot him as he may take you with him :1orglaugh

Those police officers were very brave as they tried to cover the possible blast with their own body.
I guess you see the glass half empty, euh?

its sad that the war on terrorism had become a clash of religion.

Re: the amount of bullets; Hollywood is obviously a strong influence over you. In reality a man can take a lot of bullets and still live and be able to move for hours, as painful as it might be. How much strength and time do you think moving an arm and flipping a switch requires?

Do you think they (the police) are gonna sit there and ask each other if they shot him? No, they are each gonna do their best to make sure he gets a shot to the head. So of course there are going to be multiple shots. They don't have time to hesitate, if you can get a shot off you do, if you all get shots off, that equals a lot of shots, big fucking deal, they were out to kill him and they did, what the fuck does it matter how many bullets they used, the outcome is the same, one dead stupid mother fucker. He was dead regardless, the # of bullets they shot is irrelevant.

happens almost everyday in my life

so they tackled him to the ground THEN shot him

nice

He was wearing the typical attire of a Suicide bomber... you guys really believe this is wrong for him to have been killed?

He was running away, if he were a suicide bomber those cops would be heroes, but he wasn't so now everyone thinks it so awful.

I applaud them for doing what they did.

We had a guy here in LA get shot in the back at a Halloween party because he was dressed in a costume the had a pistol. The cops were called to the party on a noise disturbance call. They shot him in the back through a window from outside... if you want to complain about shit, complain about shit like that... not some guy running from the cops in an area that had been bombed twice, who had just come out of a house that had suspected bombers in it, and was wearing typical suicide bomber clothing ... jesus.

http://www.unionrecord.com/metro/display.php?ID=737

those police are too damn racists.

because he was a twitcher

they shouldn't generalized Muslim or Asian people on terrorism.