Bleeding heart liberals!

[MisterD]

The kind of people that want to charge these officers with murder bloody well deserve to be blown up on their way to work.

These officers have volunteered to protect us in our cushy existences, and they are expected to make split-second life or death decisions. What if it had been a terrorist wired up to the eyballs with Semtex and he'd blown himself up and taken a few members of the public with him?

Yes it's all very sad that another innocent person died, but people die because they do something stupid every day, whether it's overtaking on the wrong bend or ignoring a policeman with a gun telling you to stop.

Left Wing tossers dumping on the poor sods in the front line is fuggin out of order. Give the blokes a medal, and show them we appreciate what they are doing for us I say.

[SixPackBack]

WTF are you talking about?

[MisterD]

WTF are you talking about?

Bugger- fucked up on the link -here it is.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...495341,00.html

[Drum]

A medal for shooting an innocent man 7 times in the head?

I can think of people more worthy!

[mini_me]

Now that is fucking bullshit!!
Why can people not see the logic in his actions? What the fuck else what he supposed to do? 'Um Sir, are you a terrorist and carrying a bomb?' fuck no. Under the circumstances that man deserves a lot of credit, firstly for making the call and then secondly for actually hitting the guy in the head 7 times with what I'm assuming was a 9mm.
m/m

[Indiana_Jones]

Now that is fucking bullshit!!
Why can people not see the logic in his actions?

I dare say most people do, but most people of my age have been brought up in a PC age ran by weed smoking hippies of the 60's :slap:

It's wrong what the white man did the the savages, wait i mean 'natives'. They were quite happy cracking each other's skulls open and dying at the age of 26 afraid of their own shadow....I mean they lived in peace with one another.

So yeah, it's all f*cking upside-down. When a cop kills someone he's a bastard murderer!, but oh when it's like Joe blogs who's assualted someone or what not, the person in hospital isn't the victim, oh no, Joe Blogs is. I mean we have to understand why he did it, and then give him 'jail time', no wait, we can't do that we need to 'correct him'........let's not do that, let's lock him away, or for murderers, hang them.

Rant over

-Indy

[Hitcher]

Nobody should be above the law, particularly when human life (or rather the loss of it) is the issue. If Police officers or any citizen for that matter have acted appropriately by killing another person, that is a matter for Courts to decide, not a red-neck reactionary lynch mob.

[Lou Girardin]

Apart from the fact that the cops stuffed the whole operation up from the word go, held him down and slaughtered an innocent man, Then lied about it.
Sure they were just doing their job, if they're job was as a Brazillian death squad.

[MisterD]

Nobody should be above the law, particularly when human life (or rather the loss of it) is the issue. If Police officers or any citizen for that matter have acted appropriately by killing another person, that is a matter for Courts to decide, not a red-neck reactionary lynch mob.

These blokes are putting themselves out there in harms way for the sake of our safety. There's enough for them to take into account anyway without worrying about repercussions like this, fine to put the senior officers in the spotlight for the rules of engagement they decree but I'd rather the guys at the sharpe end were confident of society's support and in my case admiration for the job they do.

They are heroes in my book.

[jazbug5]

..And as I understand it, they didn't identify themselves as police, and kept shooting into his head once he was down. I used to live in Stockwell myself; it's next door to Brixton, and there's a lot of gun crime. How would you react if you were in a dodgy area and some bloke pulled a gun on you? I'd be very surprised if most people didn't make a 'deposit' in their pants.
Anyway, as Hitcher said: none of us was there. If the cops really did do everything as they say they did, then that should come out.

[Lou Girardin]

They are heroes in my book.

And if it was YOUR father, brother, son?

[MisterD]

..And as I understand it, they didn't identify themselves as police, and kept shooting into his head once he was down.

A bloke in a blue uniform with an automatic rifle - right that what all the yardies look like...and he was a potential suicide bomber that what you have to do (hard lesson learnt by the Israelies) to make sure they can't trigger their explosives.

[jazbug5]

They weren't in uniform.

[Matt Bleck]

Why would you shoot someone in the head SEVEN times!!!

You'd think after the first he would be dead, and if not the second would make sure.......

Heroes????

[MisterD]

And if it was YOUR father, brother, son?

To me the events at Stockwell are an acceptable risk in the current climate, in my mind it just increase the death toll for the London bombings by 1 which is what? Less than 10%?. I'd be gutted / angry just like anyone else but I'd be directing that at Abu Hamza and his ilk not the poor sods trying to keep us safe.