Shooting on Tube....
It was just another news item, but a shocker nonetheless. Officer "Ivor" (your report, 9 October) described how he pinned Jean Charles de Menezes to the seat and the next moment was hit by the shockwave of a gun being discharged close to his left ear. If Ivor had been a NYPD officer and the incident had occurred on the New York subway, it would have featured on your front page. Shame.
YUGO KOVACH, The Barons, Twickenham, Middlesex
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More seriously- A Scot named Harry Stanley was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police in 1999 because he was carrying a coffee table leg which had just been repaired.
The 'Scotsman' didn't get overexcited about that either. Neither did the BBC or anybody else.
It's only news when a foreigner gets shot.
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Greenheatman / 6:45am 11 Oct 2007Yes, if you want to bump off somebody - just phone the police and tell them that he is carrying a shotgun,handgun or an AK47 hidden under his clothing - the police will overreact and shoot him dead for you!
Remember the case of a 6 year old who left a 'plastic' gun on the back seat of his parents' car - and this was reported by a stupid member of the public like in Harry Stanley's case - his Dad was nearly shot dead for that 'crime' at a petrol station
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/letters.cfm?id=1621162007
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