We come in peace… July 24, 2005
Posted by andy in : life , trackbackSo… yes… As anyone who has been paying attention to the news lately knows, the London police pursued a “terrorist” the other day, in an action that led them to shoot him 5 times in the head while he lay pinned to the ground.
In the words of an eye witness: “One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him.”
Given that the statements released after the shooting didn’t say anything about how much explosives he’d been carrying and merely stated that he was acting suspiciously, presumably because he was wearing a coat, non-Anglo-Saxon in appearance and catching a train, we all pretty much assumed he was just some guy that they brutally killed.
Shock horror, it turns out he was just some guy that they brutally killed.
Shot man not connected to bombing
Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian who had been living in London for 3 years.
I particularly like Ken Livingstone’s statement that “This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility.”
Pardon-sorry-what-now? Let’s place money on whether there’s a memorial service for this unfortunate gentleman.
And, let’s also hope that when Johnny trys to adopt tough new laws like Britain’s that he remembers to leave out the ones that let the police shoot people at random…
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A Q&A I thought was appropriate (yes it sounds callous, but it’s satire)
http://botherer.cream.org/?p=216
Yet this incident will probably have faded into obscurity within a few weeks, and how likely are they to adjust their procedures when there is so much killing to be done? I like the fact that witnesses saw wires hanging out from the ‘asian’ guy’s jacket - well, -like- in a what-the-fuck kind of way.
I gotta say that this affects me much more than the bombings - getting killed by people who hate you and all you stand for is one thing, but being killed by those that are meant to protect you is a whole new level of ‘fuck you’ (inflected rheem-hot-water styal).
The whole thing drives me nuts.
Bastardos!
I, also, am driven nuts by this.
And the things that gets me most, besides the total injustice of it all, is that nobody seems that upset about it. Now, I’m not the newsiest guy in the world, so maybe I’m not fully up on it, but it seems to me that the reaction by London seems to be a big fat “oh well, too bad”.
Nobody seems to really be all that worried that Police put 5 bullets into the head of a SUSPECT, that is, a person they think might have had something to do with something else, but they’re not really sure. Anyway, even if he was some bad-ass terrorist guy, wouldn’t it have been more productive to take him in and ask him some questions, you know, about his favourite colour and so forth? And it’s not like it was an unfortunate part of the apprehension process - they had him pinned to the ground which, in my book, counts as “apprehended”.
If I was cynical, I would say this indicates the Police aren’t all that interested in solving the crimes, they want short term scapegoats that will satisfy a suddenly blood-thirsty public, and how easier to do that than plug some suspicious looking fellow and bad-mouth him once he’s dead (hoping that evidence of his innocence can be buried under a pile of nationalistic rhetoric and question dodging)?
Argh. And I’ll say it again - argh.
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