So they dispatch armed police to supermarkets to deal with stolen car reports now? ARMED? Why armed? When did that become 'normal'?https://twitter.com/bbcemt/status/946309476449177600 …
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John Clarke Retweeted BBC East Midlands
So they dispatch armed police to supermarkets to deal with stolen car reports now? ARMED? Why armed? When did that become 'normal'?https://twitter.com/bbcemt/status/946309476449177600 …
John Clarke added,
I suppose they sent the nearest unit, who were the armed lot !
Hmmm. Maybe? I'd like to think it required more than just their proximity to a scene to justify wheeling out blokes with guns tbh. But I may be disappointed.
I believe a lot of forces now have armed response trained cops on routine patrol.
Really? I don't like that at all. Between the lack of definition of what constitutes a 'terrorist', the fact that they only need suspect you of it, and UK police's 'surreal 'non-lethal head shot' policy, I for one don't want to be seeing armed police on our streets as bau.
Seemingly unaccountable people with large, powerful guns will walk among us to reassure us? Well... I feel reassured.
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