Re: Man killed in London not connected to blasts



Chas wrote:
>
> "Grey Mouser West" <calvinthecat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> > Did they in fact shoot him seven times in the head?
>
> By most accounts.
>
> > How many head
> > shots does it take?
>
> To render him unable to twitch-
> one or more.
>
> > That would make sense if it was multiple shooters
> > firing at a distance but not for a single shooter when the victim is
> > held down.
>
> You still haven't answered the question about why you're counting shots in
> the first place.
>
> >> Getting excited and shooting him more than that is pretty common as well.
> >> In
> >> cop-shootings in the US, the perps are often shot over a dozen times.
> > By the same gun?
>
> Up to about seventeen rounds- counting hits and misses.
>
> > ......then getting hit seven times in the head might make more
> > sense.
>
> I still don't understand why being shot seven times is more important than
> being shot once.
>
> > Any way you cut it this was a mistake to try and grapple with him and
> > then shoot him.
>
> Not at all; immobilize his hand for long enough to let the shooter cut his
> motors
>
> > If you are going to risk getting blown up then go the
> > distance and discover he doesn't have a bomb and bring him in for
> > questioning.
>
> What?
> Expand your exposure to a blast of high explosives in a crowed underground
> space?
> Are you simple-minded?
>
> > If you are going to shoot him anyway then don't bother to
> > put yourself into his blast zone first.
>
> If he has a 'dead-man trigger', killing him detonates; if he has to operate
> a switch, wounding him isn't an option, he'll detonate.
> About the only option is to surprise him and immobilize him from doing
> anything long enough to kill him.
>
> > Courage does not make their actions effective. If they are going to be
> > *that* brave then why not be a tiny bit more and find out if he really
> > has a bomb?
>
> do you want to bet the lives of the forty people standing around against
> your ability to keep a bomber from detonating using only your hands?
>
> > A man died needlessly.
>
> Only in hindsight.
> And, frankly, the hazard is important enough to eat a few mistakes- sorry.
> We have people doing hard time for trying to make a joke with an airline
> stewardess and *** like that. Ramirez, the Shoe Bomber, is lucky they
> didn't tear him limb from limb- or get pinned by an Air Marshal.
> Some dip***, coming out of a house that's been being searched for a week,
> wearing a bulky coat, and responding to approach by running to a preferred
> target for terrorists who often wear bulky coats to cover their bombs, fits
> all the standards for being darwinized on the spot.



Did the cope identify themselves as such?

Or did the EXECUTED VICTIM just see a bunch of pasty-faced hooligans
chasing him down?



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