Police chief 'sorry' over death

Police chief 'sorry' over death:

"London's police chief apologises to the family of a Brazilian man shot dead by officers, but admits such incidents could happen again."

Marc Says: When the police in today's world yell, "Stop!" you should actually STOP!. It does not matter whether you are a criminal alien, a drug dealer, a petty thief, or a kid playing hookey from school. In the "good old days" the rule set said that running away from police was all in good fun and was OK. In the new GWOT rule set, running away from the police is not OK, and you should very reasonably expect to become terminally dead, shot either by the police pursuing you or by the justly-fearful law-abiding citizens you are running toward. The Israelis learned these lessons the hard way over a period of many years and many dozens of homocide-suicide bomb attacks (including shooting the suspected homocide-suicide bomber "just a little bit"). It will probably take the UK and the US a few more years to update their rule sets to the rule set the Israelis have already evolved.

Another way of saying the same thing is, "Suspected homocide-suicide bombers are guilty until proven innocent, no matter what the US constituion or the US Bill of Rights says." Nobody wants to be blown up to help demonstrate that the suspect was actually guilty of intending to blow them up.

Another side note is that the British police actually really screwed up by letting the fleeing suspected homocide-suicide bomber onto the train with the law-abiding commuters. Had the fleeing suspect wearing the heavy coat that could well have concealed a chest-pack bomb actually been a homocide-suicide bomber and detonated his chest pack bomb aboard the train, the UK press would be screaming for the UK Police Commissioner's resignation because the pursuing armed police allowed a suspected bomber to get onto the train.