Ireland Online is carrying this story:
The man shot dead by police in south London yesterday is not connected to attempted terror attacks on the capital, Scotland Yard said today.
“For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets,” said a spokesman.
It is both tragic and unfortunate that someone lost his life over an incident that began as a case of mistaken identity. Even so, the police were perfectly justified in their actions. The same story describeds the incident like this:
The fatal shooting happened in Stockwell at 10am yesterday when armed plain clothes police officers shot a man as he tried to board a train at the underground station.
He had emerged from a nearby house that was under surveillance because of a suspected link to Thursday’s attempted bomb attacks on three Tube trains and a bus.
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The man, who is believed to be of South American appearance, then bolted down an escalator, according to witnesses.
He apparently tried to get on a train before he was, according to witnesses, shot five times in the head by an officer with an automatic pistol.
As far as I can tell, the police acted the only way they could under the circumstances. The man was seen coming out of a house that they believed (rightly or wrongly is irrelevant) to be connected to previous train bombings. When challenged the man ran from the police and towards the train. Given their suspicions, it was vital that the man be kept as far from the trains as possible. They did what they had to do.
As for the man, as far as I'm concerned, he took his life into his own hands when he ran away from the police and towards the trains so close after two separate sets of train bombings.
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