Saturday, July 23, 2005

As much as the London terror bombings saddened and appalled me, and as much as the scare on Thursday reminded me (once again) how we are never truly safe...anywhere, I still cannot believe that members of the London Police shot an innocent man-- five times. It's not that they shot him, because, truly, we do the same things here...(not always, and that's not a criticism of our law enforcement, just a statement that sometimes innocent people get hurt or killed because they are arousing suspicions. Even though, I have to admit, that killing people is probably not the ideal way to deal with something...but is sometimes the only way). My point here is that the officers shot the man five times. FIVE TIMES. I can almost guarantee that after one or two shots, that man was posing little or no threat to the community...continuing to shoot at him seems unnecessary. And on top of that, one witness told CNN that two of the three pursuing officers jumped him and held him down while the other fired five shots...something about that just seems wrong. Feel free to post comments on my blog and agree or disagree. I'd like to hear what other people think.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yea thats fucked up
you cant kill terrorism
it's bred from desperation of a people to defend themselvs
i believe terrorism is a symptom
not the disease the disease is xenophobia
and elitism , western elitism vs eastern xenophobia
can you explain the difference between terrorism and shock and awe ?
i welcome a world with no nations, i pray for a world without religion
government is by defenition the opposition of freedom. religion is by defenition , is the anti thesis of open mindedness .