From: "Dave Ings" 

I'm with Gary on this one. I've just returned from three years living in
New York. The assertion that "it's" so "routine" that
"it doesn't even make the news" is nonsense and especially so in
New York. Police shootings in New York are big news in the NYC media and
taken very seriously by the authorities and the mayor.

I found the manner of the Brazilian shooting shocking, not just the
relative rarity of such an event in the UK.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45f99c8d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> The correct question would be how many were run down over a several block
> chase, corned by numerous officers and then shot in the face 5 times or
> so. The answer is NONE you ass.  None this year.
>
> And when it does happen, we actually charge them, try them, jail them, and
> taken them off the government teet.  Unlike you and Adam who decry the
> specks of dust in others eyes while ignoring the log of these guys getting
> away with murder, unpunished, and still on the government payroll with
> free health care benefits to boot.
>
> Gary
>
> Phil Payne wrote:
>>> and being that blase gets a Brazilian shot?  Sounds good, stiff upper
>>> lip
>>> and all, but it is more myth then fact.
>>
>> I'm REALLY getting pissed off with the hypocrisy of this.
>>
>> It's news simply because the British police - in general - don't shoot
>> anybody, let alone innocent people.
>>
>> Of course, it's routine in the USA.  So routine, indeed, that it doesn't
>> even make the news.
>>
>> How many unarmed people have been shot dead by police in New York alone
>> so
>> far his year?
>>

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