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Sky News - US supermarket baby snatch
nick205 - 3/7/13 at 10:29 AM

Anyone seen this on Sky News?

CCTV footage shows a guy taking a child from a supermarket trolley and holding her at knife point. After a police officer tries negotiating with the man he takes the decision to act and shoot the man at close range whilst he's still holding the child.

A brave officer!

loggyboy - 3/7/13 at 10:42 AM

Generally a grim state of affairs in America, when it comes to guns/knifes etc, and I hate to say it, but you can see why they can justify police with guns as I would love to see a UK office deal with that situation with a baton!

http://news.sky.com/story/1110555/cctv-shows-cop-killing-child-snatcher

MikeRJ - 3/7/13 at 12:47 PM

Poor little kid, that must have been extremely traumatic Still, that's one less poo floating in the US gene pool.

Slimy38 - 3/7/13 at 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by MikeRJ
Poor little kid, that must have been extremely traumatic Still, that's one less poo floating in the US gene pool.


Hopefully the kid was too young to understand what happened, 'There was a bang and the nasty man who had taken him from his mommy went to sleep'.

nick205 - 3/7/13 at 01:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Slimy38
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Poor little kid, that must have been extremely traumatic Still, that's one less poo floating in the US gene pool.


Hopefully the kid was too young to understand what happened, 'There was a bang and the nasty man who had taken him from his mommy went to sleep'.



Hope the same, although it's surprising what they do recall!

Daddylonglegs - 3/7/13 at 01:32 PM

Makes a change, saves a fortune putting the bad guy in jail for gawd knows how long. How much would they have spent trying to 'help' the obviously disturbed individual?

I guess now I'll sit back, grab some popcorn and wait for the Human Rights to give me some grief

whitestu - 3/7/13 at 01:56 PM

quote:

Makes a change, saves a fortune putting the bad guy in jail for gawd knows how long. How much would they have spent trying to 'help' the obviously disturbed individual?

I guess now I'll sit back, grab some popcorn and wait for the Human Rights to give me some grief



I totally disagree with you - the social worker or whatever the US equivalent is should definately have been brought in to ask the guy who snatched the child if he wanted to complain or get some support after the office had killed him.

Daddylonglegs - 3/7/13 at 04:00 PM

Ooops! Good point, I should know better