In the footage, officers approach Fatunbi who leans out of a window.
He appears to say a few words to the officers before leaning back inside.
He then re-emerges with the gun that he points directly at the officer, who dives behind an awning for cover as the footage ends.
After this point, police entered the property and Fatunbi attempted to fire at the officers again who responded by shooting him four times in the torso and legs.
The officers - none of whom were injured in the attack - swiftly called for medical help and Fatunbi is recovering.
Damn! Now the British taxpayer has to
pay to keep him behind bars for (maybe) twelve years...
Detective Superintendent Nick Thorburn said: 'They showed professionalism in the way they dealt with it and they showed compassion in saving a life after the event.'
For once, I'd have been happier if they'd shown a bit
less professionalism.
He added: 'The people of London will sleep safer knowing Derrick Fatunbi is off the streets.
Yeah. It's not like there's no others like him out there, is it?
Lucky they didn't kill him. Otherwise Melvin and all the other armchair experts would be calling for their heads.
ReplyDeleteAt my station officers were involved in a death of a black mental patient in a hospital. They were investigated for 8 years before being cleared. That's what goes through our minds when we approach calls involving any non white suspects. And you blogging experts and Daily Mail reporters are more than a little to blame for that.
Jaded
Real professionalism would have been two in the torso and one in the head.
ReplyDelete"Yeah. It's not like there's no others like him out there, is it?"
ReplyDeleteI am dismayed to see WC Jaded's rhetoric vis-à-vis police popularity, seriously compromised by these events. The capital's new majority, who are made up of persons of no particular description, are doing their best to contradict the assertion of a well-loved public service.
Those of us who have been completely stripped of any effective weapons, can only eat popcorn whilst watching our adored police being 'shanked' or 'popped with caps' by others with the means to do so.
Police need to watch that Jonathan Creek episode where a copper has a thin, concealed retractable blade up her sleeve. That can be used to surreptitiously finish off any scumbag who's survived a shooting.
ReplyDeleteI have sympathy for good front line coppers like Jaded above. Although it's not ordinary people or bloggers who are tying their hands, it's the Common Purpose stuffed higher echelons of the force and the Home Office. Add to that the BBC/MSM who trot out the usual bollox and make snide references to Stephen Lawrence.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, believe that all incidents involving firearms should be investigated, but that is not to say that the police involved should automatically be disciplined. As to whether they should be suspended while the enquiry takes place, there are arguments for and against. 'For' means that in the case of a bent copper (and Yes, Jaded, they do exist) it is more difficult to interfere with the evidence - although presumably such a person would still have mates on the force. 'Against' is that a suspension is a really drastic punishment in itself, as the media and the public see it almost as a guilty verdict regardless of the real outcome.
ReplyDeleteIn the present case, with a video record of the perp brandishing a gun, I would think that the enquiry ought to be pretty short and the verdict fairly obvious.
"Lucky they didn't kill him. Otherwise Melvin and all the other armchair experts would be calling for their heads."
ReplyDeleteThey would anyway. Time we ignored them. Are there no circumstances where the police are too heavy handed? No, clearly.
This, however - not one of them.
"Real professionalism would have been two in the torso and one in the head."
Which is what I suspect he'd have got in his ancestral homeland. And no questions asked.
"That can be used to surreptitiously finish off any scumbag who's survived a shooting."
LOL!
"...it's not ordinary people or bloggers who are tying their hands, it's the Common Purpose stuffed higher echelons of the force and the Home Office."
Spot on!
"As to whether they should be suspended while the enquiry takes place, there are arguments for and against. "
If it's necessary, it should be for the shortest possible time. Not eight years!