Don Karleone
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But as professionally experienced people have confirmed, he’s not responding to the requests to drop the knife so he’s not incapacitated. He still had hold of it and refusing to obey the command to release it. He’s trying to murder people and they are trying to neutralise the threat, shooting him would have been within normal protocol at the time but they didn’t have guns, thankfully as I want him to stand trial.
He was on the prevent watchlist and there were concerns about him prior to the attack. A terror group linked to Iran have claimed involvement. Whether the latter part is true we will see but he’s travelled to that synagogue to specifically attack people leaving it.
The man he stabbed earlier was in Southwark, which is nowhere near Golders Green, so I don’t think there’s much doubt he specifically travelled there for his targets.
The reason he stabbed the other poor bloke earlier will come out in the wash, maybe it was a separate argument that triggered the loon?
With regards to it being in the news, an attack on people because of their race and religion, being caught in broad daylight on someone’s iPhone, is going to grab news. Stabbings happen in London all the time and don’t make the national headlines, but it’s the motivation that makes it more newsworthy.
The first stabbing in Southwark is being reported on more as the details emerge and they realise it was the same person.
My view is protests should be allowed. I’ve just walked past a bunch of actual communists in St Peter’s Square in town earlier. I chuckled at their naivety but good luck to them, they’re allowed to protest. If they started calling for violence then that’s when the government should intervene, but not until then.
He had been tasered. What happens when people are electrocuted? Is it MET policy to kick people suspected of holding a bomb?
He's a mentally ill guy who tried to kill 3 people. Race or religion shouldn't come into it until the motive is categorically known. It is now being used to have a go at the leader of the largest left-leaning party before the local elections. He should've said, "Fuck it, I stand by what I retweeted".