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Originally Posted by asagaai
Firstly tragic for all who lost their lives and those who were seriously injured and for their families.
This guy obviously had psychiatric condition, by accounts was muttering about government after him and alien martian ships after him. Whether caused by a diagnosable psych condition, or by drugs-he was sick and not right of mind.
No different whether he was black, white, yellow or tanned skin. Just a nutter who slipped through. And Martin Bryant reminds us that white skin adorns nutters as well. Another one- Anders Behring Breivik.......
About how the police responded and whether it was appropriate is another can of worms. Up until he went bezerk running down pedestrians how were the police to know he was going to do that?
Had he just been doing donuts and the police blew his head off imagine the public outcry then.
I do not know the answers but sometimes the Police have a pretty hard task when faced with this type of situation, or the Lindt Siege. There will be a Coronial Inquest and some answers. Maybe the Police should have been more proactive with road spikes- who knows...
Our police are not as aggressive using firearms as the USA and are more restrained and all up I think that is a good thing- just look at all the police shootings in the USA -Australia is better than that. Fact is when he went beast nutso the Police used their guns and took him out......
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Police are not mind readers, granted.
Use of force needs to be commensurate with the situation at hand.
Expectation is that our police are trained to make best judgement on the course of action with the facts at hand.... it's what they are paid to do it's what we all expect.
Someone doing burnouts in the middle of Australias second largest and busiest city during a very busy period and hanging out the window ranting is due course for extremely high level response considering the density of public space. Expectation is that police should have a number of extreme responses to utilise and be trained effectively on how to manage. If they aren't then they SHOULD be. It's up to them to figure that out and implement.
Should have been restrained with what ever course was necessary , considering the proximity to huge numbers of the public.
Any review of the situation now is cold comfort to the families devastated.......
Vengeance , gratuitous violence , extreme response without provocation should not be condoned by anyone, but there comes a time when those vices under the circumstance based on threat to the mass public need to be dealt with much more swiftly whatever the outcome to the offender.