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On 2025-10-03 3:43 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

On Oct 3, 2025 at 12:18:55 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-03 2:18 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

On Oct 3, 2025 at 5:00:23 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

As if the Manchester tragedy wasn't bad enough already, it is now
emerging that two of the people who fell in yesterday's terrorist attack >>>> in Manchester were the victim of police bullets. Apparently, armed
police shot through one of the doors to the synagogue and killed one man >>>> and injured another. The shooting victims were apparently trying to hold >>>> the door closed against the terrorist.

Lesson number one they taught us on the firearms range: you're responsible
for
every bullet you fire. Never shoot unless you can see your target and always
know what's behind your target.
So I *did* understand that correctly! Thanks for confirming that.

It seems that the police did about the same amount of damage to the
innocent people at the synagogue as the terrorist did. That's a VERY bad
look for the police.

Someone's head should probably roll for this fiasco unless they can
prove the circumstances made it utterly necessary to shoot through the
door. The officer(s) who took the shot(s) should probably lose their
jobs

Unless they can articulate some extraordinary reason for their actions, they shouldn't just be fired, they should be sent to prison for manslaughter at a minimum. If it were up to me, they'd get 2nd-degree murder.

Good point: they didn't just break a protocol that they should have
learned in training, they killed an innocent man and injured another.
(The injured man is expected to survive.) And yes, a thorough
investigation needs to look at this to be sure there were no extenuating circumstances that might justify shooting through the door. It seems
unlikely that such circumstances exist but that doesn't mean it's
impossible.

It wouldn't be the first time the armed police in Britain messed up. A
few months back, I saw a 4 part documentary about how they shot a
Brazilian carpenter named Jean Charles de Menezes in the subway after mistaking him for a terrorist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
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Rhino
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