Let's remember that according to a witness, the police pushed him to the ground, and once on top of him, shot him five times.A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's
London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the
incidents.
So, is it wrong to have inquiries?
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said: "The police acted to do
what they believed necessary to protect the lives of the public.
"This
tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists
bear responsibility."
In a democracy, the police force is not supposed to be a militia. The police should be accountable for it's actions, and held responsible. Otherwise, we give them a licence to kill, and the government a licene to reign while we're at it. Then we are no longer in a democracy. Or we declare war on somebody, and then the country is officially at war. Is this the case?
According to the man's cousin who say the body, he was shot on the back and neck. Why?
RépondreSupprimerI think the answer is that, being Brazilian, he was too brown. If brown=Muslim and Muslim=terrorist (not my argument, but the argument of too many I've had the misfortune to encounter), then what about Sikhs and Latinos who have been attacked?
Thats speculation. And typical.
RépondreSupprimerI can guarantee if he ahd been any race or colour or religion or lack thereof, he would have been treated no differently.
you can guarantee? How?
RépondreSupprimerJust as easily as you guys can be sure the tragic events occured because he was a man of colour.
RépondreSupprimer(And Im not so sure he was that dark to be honest, if the photos are anything to go by)
I assure you. The British Police are not bloodthirsty bigots.
I agree he wasn't that brown, though he had 'features'.
RépondreSupprimerI do not know why the police shot him, and neither do you. it is right that there should be an inquiry. Neither of us know if the british police are bloodthirsty(unless you are one?), but I think it's pretty obvious that police are not perfect, but that they should be held accountable for their actions if they acted improperly.
Indeed, DJEB speculated. He didn't assure us or guarantee anything...
My statement is the kind that can never be proven the may a mathematical equation can, this is true. It is, however, very, very likely.
RépondreSupprimerNow, the idea that if he were a pasty, freckled, red-headed Scot, he would have been treated the same certainly is speculation and the typical kind we would expect to see from an unquestioning police supporter.
Hi!
RépondreSupprimerI'm brazilian... and found this blog acidentally.
I don't writte english so well, but I wanna trie to say my point of view.
Here, in Brasil, we all get chocked whit this fact... is never cool to see a person who could be you been treated in a bad way. In this case, this person died.
I think you should stop discussin if the motive of that was his color or nationality or atitudes... I think that what needs atention is the fact that this world is so insane, so lost... whit un-reasoned wars and fights and terrors and ameaces, and... so many things! That a man, a comun man , a worker - a police - becames an "always-alarmed" person. Not only him, but everybody around us. Everybody is so scared, so "on denfense" that forgets de humanity. I think the question isn't if the police would shooted (is it right?) the man if he wasn't brown or from another nacionality, but the real question is: if another person, in the place of the police man, with his fears, uncertaintys, preventions, and... power... wouldn't had shooted a person who appears suspicious.
Of course that his is relative. But I think that you are living in a context where the most insignificant thing becomes a motive of hesitation. People are living rounded by scruples, builts by theirselves.
Anyway... I don't know, can't express myselfe correctly. I just tried, and hope you could understand something.
Thanks
[Jú], you did good with your explanation. I don't know however that the Brazilian man was acting suspicious. He was acting "terrified" according to the eyewitness accounts I've seen.
RépondreSupprimerWhat still needs to be answered is why a man who was "subdued" according to eyewitness accounts needed to be shot in the back and neck.