Re: Different approach by the West Mids police

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Highfield" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Different approach by the West Mids police


> Peter,
>
> One, I'm wondering how a taser might set off a timer or detonator.  I'm
> no explosives expert, but isn't that a possibility?

I don't know, I'm not an explosives expert either. I just want the debate to happen in our media, so that we can 
have an informed debate about how best to equip our police so that they can keep order whilst minimizing loss of 
innocent life.

Regards
Peter





>
> Secondly, there have been cases here in the states where they've had to
> hit some people three and four times with tasers to put them down, and
> it wasn't instantaneous.  Someone being tasered might well have enough
> time to detonate the bomb.
>
>
> Peter J Richardson wrote:
>
>>If tasers have the same incapitation properties as standard fire arms, why is it necessary to kill suspects?
>>
>>Does it not make sense to allow the courts to carry out any miscarriages of justice that will be made, rather
>>than police in the heat of the moment? Public executions do not become a nation that would like to be 
>>considered
>>civilised.
>>
>>Regards
>>Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "William Highfield" <[email protected]>
>>To: <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:01 AM
>>Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Different approach by the West Mids police
>>
>>
>>
>>>Peter,
>>>
>>>Maybe it's just me, but there's a HUGE difference between tasering a guy
>>>who had a suspicious package with him (in his hands, by his side, at his
>>>feet?  Do we know?) who was not to our knowledge fleeing ... and a guy
>>>wearing a heavy coat on a warm day running from police and attempting to
>>>board a train.
>>>
>>>It the current environment, shooting to kill suspects who flee who could
>>>very well be trying to kill hundreds is common sense.  If they did NOT
>>>do it, and a fleeing suspect succeeded in detonating a homicide bomb,
>>>the fur would REALLY hit the fan as Britain's electorate demanded to
>>>know why the cops didn't stop the suspect.
>>>
>>>While the shot gentleman apparently was un-involved in the plot (we was
>>>witnessed leaving a house under surveillance I think I read somewhere),
>>>the police could not take that chance.  I'd suggest that in the future
>>>suspects ought not to flee from police towards crowds of people with
>>>backpacks, heavy jackets or packages.  The police will STILL shoot to
>>>kill, and rightly so ... the blame for that guy's death falls squarely
>>>on the terrorists actions, and his own stupidity.
>>>
>
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