London bombs, police shoot to kill policy

No one ever looks at it from the Officers' side.........it's less than a month after 7/7, it's the day after an attempted repeat and they're told theres another suspected suicide bomber about to attack innocent people. They've got families and friends and hopes and dreams, yet they STILL run after someone all they're intelligence and instincts tell them is about to blow himself up? Right or wrong, they're still heroes in my book! As for being trigger-happy shooting him, what, 15 times or whatever it was? That's the entire point, you don't shoot terror suspects to wound, you keep shooting until there is absolutely no trace of activity in the nervous system - the whole key is to completely obliterate any spasming that can induce a detonation. Bravo to them on a job well done! Just a shame the chap was subsequently found to be innocent, but personally I'd rather take THAT chance than run the risk of many more innocents being ki11ed.

.gets out of taxi....opens mobile phone...drop the effing weapon !.....huh ? bang bang bang...bang..thud.dribble...target neutralised repeat target neutralised....

before posting something like this and forming such an ignorant opinion you really need to get your facts straight.

armed police for sale to scrapyard, offers considered, free shipping by sea to the end of the earth...

message to justarealist.... get a brain and reality check, stop brown nosing corrupt coppers. Menendes was murdered.....these coppers will get theirs....you reap what you sow.

the man was unlawfully killed certain people who choose to join the armed police are not there to risk their lives to protect the public they do it first and foremost because they love the adrenalin and power. The police have also lied and failed to cover up for their own incompetence regarding the shooting of menendes at Stockwell anybody who sucks up to corrupt cowardly coppers are low life

You really really need to look at what happened, before you post such utter garbage. Every single point you stated in your post is wrong, not wrong just in my eyes but officially wrong
1) there is now CCTV footage freely available right upto the platform, he was not acting suspiciously
2) It shows that he did not run at any point(as reported at the time),and he even Stopped to check his destination on the monitors.
3) It also shows he did not jump the barriers but walked though calmy
4) he never had a rucksack, he wasnt carrying anything but the free newspaper he stopped to pick up inside the station
4) The witnesses that were on the train carriage and in the station have given evidence in the inquest that nothing was ever shouted to jean charles or anybody for that matter.
I sincerly hope you are in no way a reflection of public opinion.

I think most of you who agree with the shoot policy are narrow minded and racist. England would not be what it is today without the pakistani's, arabs, muslims what ever religon or culture. The truth is, we would be screwed. Assuming that every muslim is a terrorist is asuming every white man in the victorian times is a rapist, or thief. Or any irish man is apart of the Ira, its ridiculous and I think people are scared of what they do not know of. And to say that english folk are descent and others using benefits, might I say its the other way around. Certain english people have never lifted a finger beacause they know the goverment will pay them. In asian countries, either you work, or you die. I believe ive porven my point and those of you whom still have the same views well, god help you x

What Would Jesus Do?? He made the mistake turning the other cheek...look where he ended up... his re-incarnation Cliff Richard's gonna kill all those C**ts

I have one problem with this article. When he talks about "why would the guy run?" If I'm in the city and some guys start yelling and coming towards me (and they were undercover and never revealed themselves as police mind you) I for one am probably not going to walk up to them to say hello and shake hands. Strange guys yell at me and run at me... I'm probably running too.

lil_tinka

You need to grasp the English language yourself before you comment on other. What do they teach people at school these days?

I'm all for the shoot to kill policy. Any muslim wearing a rucksack should be used as target practice.

It seems that every one here reads different news papers to me. I understand that the police had lied and that Jean Charles de Menezes had not tryed to evade the police. They followed him, thrown him to the ground without warning and discharged five rounds into his brain, before calling the air ambulence.