Here’s an AP account of this morning’s shooting in the London underground:
Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, wrestled him to the floor of a train car and shot him to death in front of stunned commuters Friday, witnesses said. Police said the shooting was “directly linked” to the investigations of the bomb attacks on London’s transit system.
Execution style. That differs from other accounts, such as this one:
At Stockwell Station, armed officers opened fire on the suspect after he hurdled a ticket barrier and raced along a platform.
Police screamed at passengers to evacuate and are thought to have shot the suspect as he stumbled on to a train.
Alarmed onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an Asian-looking man before opening fire.
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair said the shooting was “directly linked” to ongoing anti-terrorist invetigations in the capital.
He said the man had failed to comply with instructions from police before he was shot dead.
That sounds a little less Western police are gangstas shooting Muslims for sport, doesn’t it?
