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theve released pictures of the men who think planned the bombs and they say the bloke they shot was one of them

Apparently roads out of London are hugely congested this evening.Shame cos my dinner's in one of those cars!!!

NO BOMB LINKS TO SHOOTING
The man shot dead by police in Stockwell, south London, is not connected to the investigation into the attempted terror attacks in the capital.

Scotland Yard is yet to release the identity of the man killed by undercover armed officers.

A police statement said: "We believe we now know the identity of the man shot at Stockwell Underground station by police, although he is still subject to formal identification.

"We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday 21st July 2005.

"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets."

Police said the man emerged from a block of flats in the Stockwell area that were under police surveillance as part of the investigation into the incidents on Thursday 21st July.

He was then followed by surveillance officers to the underground station. His clothing and behaviour added to their suspicions.

The circumstances that led to the man's death are being investigated by officers from the MPS Directorate of Professional Standards, and will be referred to the IPCC in due course.


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Watch out if you use the tube and don't look quite 'right' apparently it's a shootable offense these days.

The world's going down the knick

i always wondered how they could decide someone was a terroist by just looking at them.

the police are gonna have to be a bit more carful in future.

If the guy had done nothing to be worried about then why on earth was he running away from armed police who were asking him to stop?

It is a terrible situation but if the police felt they were acting properly at the time then they were trying to protect London. We don't get to hear all the details of who they watch and why they do things. My husband is an armed police officer and he knows his responsibilities and takes them seriously. It is all too easy to sit back in an armchair with the benefit of hindsight and complain about what the police do, it is not an easy job especially at the moment.

It's someones life...i understand it's a hard job, decisions have to be made, mistakes happen...but it's someones life wiped out just because someone make a mistake.
'oopsie, but hey it's not an easy job ya know!' just doesn't cut it as an acceptable excuse for me.

I didn't say 'oopsie' or anything so flippant

I think it is a tragedy but I also think that people are too quick to critisize the police when they are doing an extremely difficult job trying to protect the public and find out who is responsible.

Shoot someone in the head first.

Ask questions later.

This is absolutely shocking.

Apparently a police spokesman said something like "The way he was acting and dressed made him seem suspicous, and he also seemed to be knowledgable about the Underground".

So there you go Londoners. If you aren't kitted out in a suit and know which tube to get to where you're going you may just be shot.

Going from what i have heard, i'm just wondering if the guy who they pounced on, whether he had his arms in full stretch or not. Why shoot 5 times?? If they wanted to kill him, wouldn't a bullet to the head have been enough. I dunno, something about this just doesn't make sense to me, first they pounce on him (from what i have been told), then they unload 5 bullets into him. And anyway, if they did pounce on him, there's also the risk they would have shot their colleague/s as well. I did read on the BBC website, that they unloaded 5 shots into him. I never read anything about witnesses saying the bomber (if it was) was struggling to do something, which is why he got shot. I just read that the police unloaded 5 shots into him. If this had been a vigilante helping the police, god knows what he would have been accused of. For the police that truly believe in only taking drastic measure's when absolutely necessary, then good on them. If i'm wrong then fair enough, but something about this spells suspicion.

Andy Mcnab (the sas bloke) was on the radio, and he was saying it had all the traits of the Gibralter incident, and how the man was killed yesterday was more of an execution, he was saying he seemed to think it was an sas squad, rather than police, because the way it was handled, the police are not trained to that standard, and the way the shooters of the man were whisked away, he doesnt think the police had anything to do with the killing yesterday

Well whoever it was anyway. I haven't actually seen any footage of the incident, and i doubt very much whether they would release any footage if they had any. There probably isn't any anyway. I just hope that they only had to execute him, if it was absolutely necessary.

The bloke was acting suspicious, wearing a thick padded coat, IN SUMMER, and ran from the police, so they had every right, especially at times like these, when anyone is a suspect, to treat him as a terrorist.

I can't imagine the police/sas whoever it was, wouldn't have shouted "stop or we'll shoot" if he carried on running, that's his fault. Maybe if he's have listened he'd be alive today.

Looks like your prediction was right!