{"id":427,"date":"2005-07-23T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T00:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=427"},"modified":"2005-07-23T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T00:13:35","slug":"they-screwed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"They screwed up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/23\/london.tube\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/23\/london.tube\/story.cctv1.ap.jpg\" alt=\"cctv\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An unheard-of series of terrorism-related events has result in an unheard-of action taken by police in London: they fire five shots at a suspect at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_blank\">point blank<\/a> range, and <strong>we mean<\/strong> point blank: according to witness, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/23\/london.tube\/index.html\">the muzzle was held against the suspect as he was on the ground, and the trigger was pulled.  Five times.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a place where police officers normally aren&#8217;t armed to begin with, this is a lousy way to start using firearms for anti-terrorism measures.<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s worse?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/23\/london.tube\/index.html\">Police could not find a link between the suspect and the bombings, nor did he have any explosives.<\/a>  Fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unheard-of series of terrorism-related events has result in an unheard-of action taken by police in London: they fire five shots at a suspect at point blank range, and we mean point blank: according to witness, the muzzle was held against the suspect as he was on the ground, and the trigger was pulled. Five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}