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Quote by: Zeebedee I guess a little collateral damage is acceptable in your view. |
Tossing around inflammatory rhetoric is easy, Zeeb... and cheap. Here, let's turn it around... let's imagine that it wasn't Mr. Menezes but rather... say... Hasib Hussain who, having outrun police and reached his target, triggers his bomb as police try to humanely subdue him, killing 25 and wounding even more. I guess a little collateral damage is acceptable in your view?
It's real easy to toss around phrases like "summary execution", but an execution is about punishment. They weren't trying to 'punish' Jean Menezes. As you state yourself, Zeeb... "I think the purpose is clear, they want to prevent a suicide bomber from detonating his device."
You then go on to state... "I'm not sure how to handle this kind of issue, but I don't think shooting people that turn out to be innocent is going to help much." Operative phrase, 'I'm not sure how to handle this kind of issue...' Yes, it was tragic that Mr. Menezes was killed, but not nearly as tragic as the dozens that died due to subway bombs. So unless you have a sure-fire way to avoid such tragic mistakes while at the same time assurring that dozens don't die as "collateral damage" due to police over-caution, perhaps we could all dial down the accusatory rhetoric a tad and try to comprehend what an incredibly difficult situation this is for everyone involved, including the police.
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