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Greek riots | 93 comments (93 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: bullet richocheted (4.00 / 2)
Well, people have been known to receive bullet wounds on the back from Spanish police firing "into the air".

The ricochet is neither here nor there - the cop was a crappy marksman and got "lucky". What matters is intent and you shouldn't fire live ammunition without intent.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 09:02:21 AM EST
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Re: bullet richocheted (4.00 / 4)
theres always the case of the Armed Irishman in London who turned out to be armed with a table leg who managed to get shot in the back by all accounts, it happens all over the police firearms officers all threatened to go on strike (well hand in their weapons and refuse any armed action) unless no action was taken over the officers involved.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 09:11:22 AM EST
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Re: bullet richocheted (4.00 / 5)
And let's not forget Mr De Menezes, and the coroner's intervention which guaranteed that unlawful killing wasn't an acceptable verdict.

If you give cops guns and fuel them up with paranoia and TV fantasies, you get dead people.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 02:24:09 PM EST
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Re: bullet richocheted (none / 0)
I missed that one. What did the coroner do, exactly?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 02:57:59 PM EST
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Re: bullet richocheted (4.00 / 2)
declared that the Jury could not bring in a verdict of Unlawful Killing as the evidence didn't warrant it,

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 03:37:29 PM EST
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Greek riots | 93 comments (93 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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