'unfortunate'
Jul. 23rd, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrph"A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was unconnected to the incidents, police have confirmed.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stmA Scotland Yard statement said the shooting was a "tragedy" which was regretted by the Metropolitan Police."
From the initial news report on the shooting, the eyewitness description:
"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706787.stm
Combine the two and you've got a very unfortunate PR incident for the police. And a tragedy for the poor bastard they shot and his family, of course.
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:58 pm (UTC)A Brazilian (Catholic, according to some news sites) electrician leaves a "block of flats" that the police are monitoring. They then mistake him for a dangerous muslim extremist, decide he's acting suspiciously and shoot him dead.
Ooops.
Brazil's foreign minister is now en route to London to complain to Jack Straw in person (Meanwhile, Charles Clarke is going on holiday).