Thanks to Greg for the first of the two below. There are some quality goods in the “What lessons can be learned from Menezes case?” thread. It’s got a rich seam of hate running through it. Let’s get mining.
it teaches us that if your visa expires then its time to leave this country and go home.
pete, Rotherham
Shooting them in the face is the only language these people understand. I reckon they should extend this idea to other forms of licence. Instead of buying a car tax disc you should get a car tax “seat bomb” with a 365 day countdown. If you fail to renew in time, it hurls a couple of pounds of white hot metal through your spine at a 3,000 feet per second. Oh wait, I expect that’s against your “human rights”. Goddam PC-gone-mad brigade.
It is disgraceful that due to absent mindedness (going to the toilet whilst the suspect left the building!) and going on uncertainty lead to the death of a man that doesn’t even look remotely middle eastern nor was he carrying a bag! The police look like idiots and the fact that they didn’t admit they were wrong makes it so frustrating. I’m still disgusted when I think about it
Peter, Edinburgh
It disgusts me too. He didn’t even have a beard. How dare our police stop for a piss when they should be shooting at people who look Middle Eastern?
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[...] much consolation from the commentators on Have Your Say deploring the death of someone who “didn’t even look remotely Middle Eastern“, but we’re not all that guy, and either way the Met were afraid that heads might end [...]