Police get their stories straight after shootings.

[cleanbluesky]

BAD MEN ARE GOING TO SHOOT YOU FOR NO REASON, FEAR THESE FACES

[Pebs]

LOL! CBS you're a goon!

[Justsomebloke]

Originally Posted by Pebs

LOL! CBS you're a goon!

Agreed & at least His humour works

[AboveTheSalt]

Originally Posted by Pebs

Ahhh the copy and paste sessions begin.

Unbelievable. If you don't cite sources; people bitch. If you just give a link without any introduction, comment or question; people bitch. If you raise a topical issue any more challenging than "What I had for elevenses" or "What are you listening to right now?", people bitch.

Incidentally, I am not particularly getting at you here Pebs ...

Originally Posted by Pebs

I dont see a story that needs to be straightened. They did their job.

In which case, four months after the event, the High Court will doubtless hail the Police as heroes and say that Mark Saunders deserved to be killed, just as Jean Charles de Menezes and Harry Stanley did.

Originally Posted by Justsomebloke

So him letting of his gun through his neighbours houses/bedrooms don't count as a threat now

Since the area is reported to have been cleared, it certainly doesn't seem to constitute an imminent threat, no.

Originally Posted by Justsomebloke

Maybe this is to close to home for me to comment.

Very possibly.

[cleanbluesky]

Originally Posted by AboveTheSalt

Unbelievable. If you don't cite sources; people bitch. If you just give a link without any introduction, comment or question; people bitch. If you raise a topical issue any more challenging than "What I had for elevenses" or "What are you listening to right now?", people bitch.

Incidentally, I am not particularly getting at you here Pebs ...

Actually, you're the bitch - hence it happens to you a lot. I actually think its a good idea to post news stories but I've seen Nazi propaganda and Guardian articles that are more accurate and unbiased than what you've put in the OP.

[Pheebs]

Originally Posted by Pebs

Ahhh the copy and paste sessions begin.

I really dont understand this obsession with police coverups. From what I've witnessed the police force is far more likely to hang you out to dry if you **** up than help you cover it all up.

I have seen this happen a number of times! Slightest step out of line and my Christ you know it!

All I can say is from my time with the police, all I have ever seen are people working their butts off to do everything they possibly can in their powers to help provide a service to our country.

In this case - I think it's unfair to judge what happened when you weren't present there and perhaps to take what you read with a pinch of salt. So many police "stories" are just that - a combination of information woven to depict something that barely resembles the full story or truth. Once again, I have witnessed this happen many a times and there's nothing worse for officers, who work their butts off with stretched and limited resources, to be slated again and again on stories like this for all the good that they do.



*passes ATS superglue for hair*

[Pheebs]

Oh and stop insulting bitches people! I have one - she's sat right next to me and is goooooooorgeous and highly intelligent! Even from an early age she realised newspaper stories were to taken lightly and pooed on

[Von Smallhausen]

ATS, I have a simple answer for you.

Go to a police training centre, ask for a go on the response screen with a converted HK, do some scenarios then make your choice.

You cannot possibly imagine the split second choices that AFOs have to make. They do not have the time or the luxury of debate to ask if the item in the carrier bag is a table leg or if the pistol the suspect carries is a fake.

If you feel that you can do better then join up and show them how it should be done.

You think a police shooting is covered up ? Do you think that the IPCC can be bought to help with that ..... not in a million years.