That's free and open media for ya...


>Well I think your biggest worry ought to be that, as it is here more and more, the media is more an arm of government/authority than it is the "questioning voice". They still disguise themselves as questioning journalists but in fact they or their masters have an entirely different agenda than the one traditionally assumed for the media.
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>A jean jacket is hard to mix up with a heavy winter-style padded coat, and I'm sure witnesses had comments/questions.
>Jumping the turnstyle has to be such an unusual occurrence that people would have remembered it and connected that they didn't see such around the time of the shots.
>The non-event of ordering him to stop is another thing witnesses would have had something to say about I should think.
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>Apparently there were more than 8 shots (seven to head, one to shoulder). 2 missed completely, I read. From point blank range!
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>>>>With the first flush of reports I was reasonably satisfied but now this has really p*ssed me off!
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>>>Terry,
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>>>Is no one over there "wondering" how come it has taken so long for this information to see the light of day?
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>>>Seems a very big worry in my eyes.
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>>>cheers
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>>Jim
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>>I could make a joke about there being no light of day down the tunnels.
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>>EVERYONE is wondering. It's on all the major TV channels. Beats the hell out of me! First (yesterday) we hear that the Met Pol commissioner tried to keep it all "in-house" and prevent an independent investigation, but not too fishy - by evening there's calls for his resignation. What I can't fathom is the "eye-witnesses" (ear-witnesses would be more approp.) said AT THE TIME, outside the Tube station, that 3 shots were heard, cops running onto the train shouting, now it's escalated through 5, 7, now I've heard 8 shots (what, were 5 in case he got fed up with the first 3?)
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>>All this info from yesterday came from "leaked" reports. Did no journalist collar one of the witnesses? They talked to them on the street at the time. I find it very worrying, even being a blond caucasian - what if they're searching for a run-of-the-mill caucasion murderer in future. This all seems tantamount to death squads.
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>>We don't get that many police shooting in the UK and the ones that do happen get full publicity - but it seems because innocent or unarmed men get ventilated. Springs to mind some years ago a guy in his Mini (mistaken identity), a black guy in his bed.
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>>Cheers
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>>Terry