Running to catch a train

[rowyn]

This version of the events leading to the London Tube shooting is the most unbelievably awful thing I can recall reading.

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I'll be following this one to see what else comes out. I hope the officers have better justification than it currently appears. O_o

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[garyamort.livejournal.com]

I hope the officers have better justification than it currently appears

Which officers? So far, I've seen nothing that does not justify the officer who shot him. As far as I know right now, the officer was given information identifying a potential terrorist, he was told no matter what you do don't let him on the train, and than saw the guy running onto the train. At which point, one officer grabbed the guy, and another shot him.

In an ideal world, the officer doing the shooting would have been able to take a moment and see that the potential terrorist was restrained, and would hold off a moment.

But given the time constaints, I think the officer made a split second decision in an emotional frame of mind, and while he didn't make the correct decision, he didn't make a wrong decision either.

For me, there is a question about the officers involved in the survelience acting appropriately. Why did the potential terrorist get to the train station? Why wasn't anyone notified earlier to stop him? And why did the information coming out of the police force after the incident seem to be fluffed up(a polite phrase for full of lies) in order to justify the shooting?

I'm sure if it happened to someone I knew, I'd be outraged. But it didn't, so I can take a more unemotional view. When it first happened, I was disgusted by those who took the facts as they were released and tried to smear the man killed and his family in order to justify the shooting. Now I'm almost equally disgusted by those who take the new rumors and try to smear the police(in truth, I should be equally disgusted by both, but my liberal bias against police and for victims is showing through there)

[rowyn]

Frankly, the whole thing makes no sense to me. If they were sufficiently sure that the guy was a terrorist that they were prepared to kill him, why did they let him get to the train station?

I don't understand -- from the information I've seen -- why this happened, or why waiting for this guy to get on the train, then tackling him, then shooting him, was a rational or appropriate thing to do.

Maybe more information will come out later that'll make sense of it. Right now, the whole thing stinks.