Police shoot man dead in Luton

Freakbro · 10 Nov 2016 at 08:52

There are only a few scant details about this incident yesterday, so this isn't about speculating on those, just a question in general.

It's been reported that police were called out to a property as a woman was being assaulted. There is no mention in the news report that it was reported the man had a firearm (Not that means he didn't have or it wasn't reported to the Police, it's too vague atm to know.)

So it just surprised me that the armed response unit was sent out *if* it was just reported as an assault in progress

Would there have had to have been a firearm reported, or any other weapon, knife, baseball bat....what is the threshold for armed Police to be sent out nowadays?

Voicon · 10 Nov 2016 at 08:55

I think more and more armed police are around these days due to the heightened terror threats so maybe the officers who attended just happened to be armed?

Freakbro · 10 Nov 2016 at 08:59

Voicon said:
I think more and more armed police are around these days due to the heightened terror threats so maybe the officers who attended just happened to be armed?

I did hear it was an armed response unit that was sent.

We aren't routinely arming general police yet, thank god

Cosimo · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:07

This is the incident:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37927420

If it was being reported as serious and we don't know, an armed response unit was probably in the area and sent out. They're still just cops responding to an incident and if they have guns in the boot then so be it. I don't have a problem with that.

Diddums · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:29

I can only hope that the guy was white lest we have to deal with idiots lying on motorways because "black lives matter".

Syla5 · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:32

Diddums said:
I can only hope that the guy was white lest we have to deal with idiots lying on motorways because "black lives matter".

"A spokeswoman for Bedfordshire Police said the man, who was described as white and British, was initially treated at the scene by officers and paramedics."

Diddums · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:33

Thank god for that. Maybe we should do a "white lives matter" campaign to see what those busybody SJWs say?

Terminal_Boy · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:36

AFO could have been nearest free unit to deal with the call.

bledd · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:39

Maniac

grudas · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:48

Diddums said:
Thank god for that. Maybe we should do a "white lives matter" campaign to see what those busybody SJWs say?

erm obviously this guy was dangerous or posed danger to police hence the shooting.

if it was a black guy with a history of violent crime then the police would be racist aye.

SJW's can suck a pickle

Freakbro · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:54

grudas said:
erm obviously this guy was dangerous or posed danger to police hence the shooting.

Well, we can hope that's the case, as it's not always. The IPCC investigation will tell

twist3d0n3 · 10 Nov 2016 at 09:57

are we sure of this persons' preferred pronouns?

Burnsy2023 · 10 Nov 2016 at 10:05

Terminal_Boy said:
AFO could have been nearest free unit to deal with the call.

Indeed, armed officers don't just deal with firearms jobs, they do occasionally actually do some proper police work too... :eek:

Mynight · 10 Nov 2016 at 10:10

Must be horrible to have to shoot someone.

Sad that it's hoped he was white lol.

Must have been a pretty extreme situation

. Poor cop.

FTM · 10 Nov 2016 at 10:23

it could also have been an address known to the police, maybe occupants already have a history of violence or convictions for using weapons, their computer systems must flag this sort of thing

Junglist · 10 Nov 2016 at 10:41

Diddums said:
I can only hope that the guy was white lest we have to deal with idiots lying on motorways because "black lives matter".

That's a very sad stance to take.

Diddums said:
Thank god for that. Maybe we should do a "white lives matter" campaign to see what those busybody SJWs say?

Or you could just do what most rational people do and ignore them. 'BLM' does more harm than good. The sooner people realise that the better.

Diddums · 10 Nov 2016 at 12:11

JunglistE said:
That's a very sad stance to take.

Or you could just do what most rational people do and ignore them. 'BLM' does more harm than good. The sooner people realise that the better.

Those posts were made in jest

DXP55 · 10 Nov 2016 at 12:16

He was obviously naked when cops shot him - or was he sitting in a Mini in a traffic jam.

Junglist · 10 Nov 2016 at 12:47

Diddums said:
Those posts were made in jest

Seems my Internet Jest Detector isn't working today

Rroff · 10 Nov 2016 at 12:54

FTM said:
it could also have been an address known to the police, maybe occupants already have a history of violence or convictions for using weapons, their computer systems must flag this sort of thing

Was thinking this it might be an area or address known for crimes involving weapons.