Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

Grinker grinker at mweb.co.za
Mon Jul 23 14:01:03 PDT 2001


From: Daniel Davies
> Crowds throwing rocks are exactly what you are trained to deal with,
without
> shooting people.
> I'll point out that UK police deal with riots including rocks and petrol
bombs
> while not even owning firearms.

Yes they learned about the need for proper riot gear the hard way back in '80s Brixton where they tried to withstand a shower of half-bricks from nearby demolition sites armed only with a few dustbin lids.

I wouldn't however underestimate the danger posed to ordinary civilians by your average British bobby. Do the Met's patrol vans not all have firearms on board these days? And any comments on the shooting dead by the cops in Brixton last weekend of a man in possession of a cigarette lighter shaped like a pistol? Shades of Diallo - Black while lighting a cigarette?



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