Hmmm.
If you have brown skin, don't have a very good command of the english language, come from a country where people do carry guns in the street, organised crime is a real issue, and so if you see a bunch of armed guys running at you (failing to reveal themselves as police officers until you're already fleeing in blind panic, according to some witness reports), it's a fucking good idea to run like hell;
watch out, you're fair game.

Having worked for the court service and a criminal law solicitors, I've seen how very often the police fuck up due to over unprofessional, emotional responses and dumb, macho bullishness, it scares me that there's so little condemnation of their laxity anyway (often, btw, leading to a real criminal escaping conviction through their stupidity) let alone when they're armed.

I've read of, heard of and spoken to people, "normal" folk, just going about their day, who've been affronted and outraged that they've simply been stopped and searched by the police because they fitted one profile or another (young and black, male and asian, middle aged creepy looking loner) or been in a certain place at a sensitve time.
The reasons that happened to them, the justification given, is barely a heartbeat away from the reasons that an innocent man, who came to our country to work hard because he heard it was safe here and free from the violence rife in his homeland, got shot five times in the head at close range while being held down.

You got him in the head, at close range, why five times if you're not being over-emotional or trigger happy? I can see why any londoner would be emotional, angry and afraid right now, but that's not what armed police officers are PAID to be, they're supposed to be professionals, paid for with my tax money.
For many this is showing to be a case of "not in my name (as long as it's not in my back yard)", don't shoot the arabs over there, but knock yourself out over here.

Never mind how much it costs the taxpayer (that'd be me then) when some numbnuts gorilla in blue serge lets off a few rounds.

This is why I avoid social comment, I have an acid stomach now.

On a less angry note, anyone who read about my change in sanitary protection a couple of posts ago, Aunt flo's gone home, and the diva cup was fantastic!
None of the faintly icky new problems I'd anticipated, and none of the niggles I'd had with other options. I'm a convert, almost evangelical, and despite being a bit expensive, it'll have paid for itself within three months.
And I get to be a smug enviornmentally friendly person.