I'm not blaming the victim ... I'm assuming that the police identified themselves and you are assuming that they didn't. The victim, in this case, was observed jumping over the turnstile and was in the country illegally which may be the reason that he ran. If the police did not identify themselves then I can see a reason for running away. If they did then he ran away because he was breaking the law.
Either way, it's a tragedy for the victim and his family and also the policeman that shot him. Until I hear otherwise I'll assume that the police identified themselves. Howie --- On Monday, July 25, 2005 11:03 AM, Jennifer Larkin scribed: --- > > We still have NO reports that state that the police identified > themselves as such. The official word is that the police later stated > that they confronted him and he "did not obey." Assume that maybe they > didn't identify themselves, that they walked up to him showed him a > gun and said "Hey you!" In that case he SHOULD have run. We're talking > 20 guys, some of them armed with machine guns. He could have thought > that they were there to kill him and not even known they were police > officers-- his only chance to get away was to catch a train. Maybe > they said they were the police but he didn't believe them, since the > police generally don't have 20 guys with machine guns chase him. > > All they would have had to do is use a uniformed police officer. Then > there would have been little doubt that the guys with the guns were > police. > > The fact is, they keep blaming the victim and so do you. It is not the > victim's fault. > > They are not willing to even examine the incident and determine if the > officers failed to identify themselves as police officers or if they > could have handled the confrontation stage better. He did not act like > a suicide bomber once inside the building if the police did identify > themselves as police and told him to stop. > > He should not even have been allowed into the building and it would > have been easy to plan to stop him at the entrance. They followed him > and knew what bus he was on. The organized 20 officers with machine > guns on the site. But they didn't get those officers between him and > the train station. > > At which point, the police's best option was to not identify > themselves as police, since a suicide bomber would have set off the > bomb at that point. > > I'm not arguing that the policy is wholly incorrect but it was clearly > applied incorrectly in this case. The least they could do is determine > what they could have done better. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166149 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
