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Schrank

The Independent        18.8.2005

 

Leading article: Incompetence, cynicism and a misguided cover-up
Published: 18 August 2005

When police from Scotland Yard's crack firearms unit shot dead a suspected terrorist at Stockwell station, the killing prompted widespread unease.
This sort of thing just did not happen in Britain, where the police are known and admired the world over for patrolling even mean city streets unarmed.

On that day, though, plenty of people were prepared to give the Met the benefit of the doubt.
It was the day after the second set of London bombings, and it was feared there could be more.
The city was on edge; the police were, rightly, on the highest level of alert,
and they were felt to have acquitted themselves creditably after the first bombings two weeks before.

Article Length: 586 words (approx.)
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article306553.ece
 

 

 

 

 

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