Latest info released by the IPCC (shown on the very same Beeb) is that "the firearm found at the incident" had not been fired, and the bullet found lodged in the taxi's radio was a jacketed round of the type consistent with those fired from police weapons. Putting two and two together, the number somewhere between pi and 2*e appears to be that an armed officer confronted an armed person in a taxi, and fired the first shot. Whether he *should* have fired remains to be determined. But of course, the mere fact that he shot first is enough to outrage many people. (This is not, after all, "Star Wars". =:o\ )
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Date: 2011-08-10 01:05 am (UTC)