There's a lot of peering into the Retrospectoscope(TM) going on in this thread.
It's entirely possible for the policeman AND the man to have behaved perfectly reasonably in their own world-view - and still for the man to have been shot. That's what makes it a tragedy. It's not fair to say that the man should have heard a warning (what if one wasn't shouted? what if his English was poor and he didn't understand who was chasing him? It seems fairly clear that he didn't understand *why* he was being chased). I don't accept that he 'deserved' to be shot because he should have known he was a terrorist suspect. (Nor am I saying that some fault lies with the police.)
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Originally Posted by DreadfulScathe You say the policeman was wearing body armour, he no doubt had other identifying marks, yet the guy still ran? You also say he may not have been the aware the police were chasing him - are the police so thick they cant tell the difference between a man running for a train and a man running from them ? i'd doubt it. Also, Ive never heard any of these reports about the lack of coat and using a ticket, they cant have been very widely reported ! Im sure he knew enough English to understand 'STOP!' |
DS, you're making some fairly substantial claims about something (as far as I know) you didn't witness. I don't know where you got all this information from - particularly about whether the police were identifiable (all plainclothes, I thought), whether a warning was shouted, or whether the man knew enough English to have understood it.