Re: Trigger-happy Met Armed Cops still haven't learned to stop behaving like armed thugs

Cynic wrote: 
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:29:54 -0000, "Peter McLelland"
<peter.mclelland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


If the police are so poorly informed about who are the suspects and
who are not, I suggest that they should not be let loose with deadly
firearms.


So considering that the person who hired the car used in the raid may have
some connection with the raid was wrong.



No.  Assuming that the woman had any connection to either the hirer or
the raid was wrong.


So ensuring that some one who
appeared in the middle of an attempt to arrest some one who may be armed and
may already have shot two people could neither disrupt the operation or be
at risk from the operation was wrong



When you are in a public place where there are far more innocent
bystanders than armed suspects, and the person who appeared is not
obviously connected with the suspect, then yes.


IIUC, the intelligence that led to this particular raid concerned the
name & address of the person who hired a vehicle that the suspects
used.  It would appear very much as if that intelligence was misused.


Are you suggesting that these people should not have been arrested? 


I am suggesting that only the suspect, and perhaps people he was
obviously associated with should have been arrested rather than going
after someone who happened to live nearby.

The fact that Miss Dennis was not arrested and placed into a police van for transport to a police station, suggests to me that they knew straight away that she was not a 'suspect' in the killing. She was taken outside until the incident was over and then released. Now why that happened to her and not to other people in neighbouring flats I have no idea - but *something* took place that made the officers treat her differently to the others - I feel quite sure about that!

Kev
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