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FOXnews has this splashed over their page bigger than they did this Thursday’s bombings. Ah well, the press loves a conflict. Too bad the rest of us don’t, so much.

Man Killed by Police Had No Connection to London Attacks

“The man who was shot was under police observation because he had emerged from a house that was itself under observation because it was linked to the investigation of yesterday’s incidents,” police said Friday.

“He was then followed by surveillance officers to the station. His clothing and his behavior at the station added to their suspicions.”

Yeah, well.

Security alerts kept the city of about 8 million on edge. Police briefly evacuated east London’s Mile End subway station in one such incident and one witness reported the smell of something burning. Service was suspended on parts of two subway lines, but police said later the incident “turned out to be nothing.”

Okay, I wonder about this, because just when I was there stations were being closed and evacuated all the time. Westminster Abbey and its environs were evacuated and closed off the day I would have seen it. Didn’t make the news then, did it. So I wonder how “on edge” they are and how much of it’s just routine.

Anyway, I ran into this yesterday and was so teed off I couldn’t link to it right away. This is as good a time as any. And given that the poor dead guy was Brazilian, I wonder if the “British Muslims” will retract their “jumpy and nervous” statement.

LGF - Instantaneous Victimization

Update:

Chrenkoff - “Jumpy and nervous”

The police are damned if they kill an innocent person (although in this case there seems to be more to the story than that), but they’re even more damned if they give the suspect the benefit of the doubt, only to see him blow up on a train full of people.

“Jumpy and nervous”? That the Muslim community in Britain might well be. But so was the suspect. So are the police. And so are all of us. I’m only glad that I’m not the one having to make those split second life-and-death decisions.

If anyone gets on the case of that poor officer (assuming he’s the police, of course), I’ll have some serious issues.