London Bridge Incident

muon · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

NewGamer11 said:
One reason the citizenry should be armed.

How exactly would you stop bad people also easily getting armed?

It is actually difficult to get guns in the UK right now which is why thieved and other criminals aren't routinely armed like other places in the world.

Chonky · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

Brenn47 said:
Only a matter of time till someone hoofs it down Oxford Street in a truck.

I go to oxford street every day for lunch and I look and see the wide pavements with no obstacles and full of people, and I wonder when it will happen.

StriderX · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

Pigeon_Killer said:
So how long before the Police tell us they knew the people involved but were powerless to stop them because of some ****** up law that prevented them from doing anything?

Except it wont be that and you know it.

mmj_uk · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

A witness on Sky who lives nearby is reporting gunfire on the bridge 10mins before the police even turned up.

edit: separate incident at nearby market.

mattyg · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

Its Ok Corbyn wants to get these people round a table to talk

balky12 · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:18

TS7 said:
Does anyone know how it works in terms of specialist police response.

It's late on a Friday night. Are there specialist officers always on duty to respond to such an incident in London. Or will it be a case of calls going out to specialist officers at home about to go bed saying URGENT get on duty now or similar.

I'm not 100% sure on the intricacies of it but there are police everywhere, at least in the city. Mainly undercover but no idea if they are armed.

Guy few months ago committed suicide by jumping off a building. Within a couple minutes there were a dozen plain clothes officers there.

Also I've seen a few times unmarked cars pull up and 2/3 men running and jump in, next thing the sirens are on and they are off. First time I saw this I thought o was witnessing a robbery or something.

Marked armed vehicles are always patrolling. Easily recognisable by yellow circle stickers on the Windows. Believe a yellow star on the roof too.

mattyg · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:19

Possible 2 incidents at the same time

omnomnom · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:19

mattyg said:
Its Ok Corbyn wants to get these people round a table to talk

He at least wants to put some funding back into the police that protect us...

Incident at Borough market, i dont know if this so close by tbh.

muon · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:20

omnomnom said:
He at least wants to put some funding back into the police that protect us...

Incident at Borough market, i dont know if this so close by tbh.

Just south of London Bridge.

jonneymendoza · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:20

thenewoc said:
Got to stop those entering the country from Syria etc who are known to security services.

Last few attacks where home grown

delta0 · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:20

Robbo said:
So current situation seems to be:

White van mows down pedestrians on the bridge
3 men jump out and start stabbing people

Presumably, armed police return fire.

All coming from eyewitnesses so far though.

This seems to be the case at the moment. I hope no one has died.

Dis86 · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:20

adolf hamster said:
considering this was opened up with what was effectively "twitter says there's been a traffic accident on london bridge" then i still stand by that statement.

Perhaps it's a lesson to keep shtum on things and not comment until more facts are known?

mattyg · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:21

omnomnom said:
He at least wants to put some funding back into the police that protect us...

Incident at Borough market, i dont know if this so close by tbh.

Pretty close

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...9e80796c4f5bfc5!8m2!3d51.5054872!4d-0.0907334

jonneymendoza · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:21

mattyg said:
Possible 2 incidents at the same time

Link?

adolf hamster · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:21

Dis86 said:
Perhaps it's a lesson to keep shtum on things and not comment until more facts are known?

that's an ironic statement to make given that's pretty much exactly what my original post said....

StriderX · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:21

Dis86 said:
Perhaps it's a lesson to keep shtum on things and not comment until more facts are known?

Dont worry NBC will surely ruin that.

XeNoN89 · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:22

Guy on the sky news live feed was doing a gun holding motion but we couldn't hear what he was saying. It's sounding like multiple people jumped out of the van and ran out to borough market

Combat squirrel · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:22

More horror - I hope no one is killed or badly hurt

It's almost as if these evil terrorists are trying their hardest to scare the UK with a general election happening.......so many incidents happening in the run up to the 8th June...... as if they want a particular party to win that would aid in their evil plans / propaganda / keep a war happening.............strange isn't it.

Minibiker · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:22

Im not to familiar with London... but according to MetPolice Twitter there was also stabbings in Borough Market just minutes after the van incident... is that the same place?

diamount · 3 Jun 2017 at 23:22

My only contribution to this thread is hoping the victims pull through, the back and forth from the usual suspects just poisons the well for any intelligent discourse.