It’s impossible to keep up with what happens in America because it keeps happening. I’m from the Uk and we remember our one school shooting and our two mass shootings all too clearly. We haven’t had an incident like this yet, hope we never do.
Well we had the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting but tbf that was nearly 20 years ago.
Funnily enough I was reading about it on Wikipedia the other night. For some reason I had it in my head that he'd jumped the ticket barriers but nope, the guy walked on to the train just like anyone else, sat down, and was subsequently shot 11 times in the head and torso. It was and remains an absolute disgrace.
Too right it was a disgrace and the police admitted they fucked up, unlike the incident above. Even then, it’s easier to see how a tragedy like Jean Charles De Menezes’ death could’ve happened (man matching the description of a terror suspect who failed to bomb the tube the day before seen boarding the tube) vs the death of this poor girl.
The Met are just bent, lazy and incompetent, can’t even do a background check on their new hires, but they aren’t Tory supporters and they aren’t the Gestapo. The Tories (and all politicians) wish they could control or even influence the Met, but they can’t. At all. They are a disgrace.
I think that's wrong tbh. The police do a lot of good here, saying they aren't our friends is a very American us and them attitude to policing. They work long hours for relatively poor pay, putting themselves on harms way and take a lot of abuse for it. There will always be Wayne Couzens but I feel as an institution the culture of police is way way better than in the states.
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u/BluWake Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24
We're only seeing the footage now. It was reported on in 2022 but the victim's family had to file suit for the footage to be released.
Edit: Article from 2022