This morning, police in London shot and killed a man on the subway. This is the first time ever that I've read about a police shooting or death in London, or in all of England for that matter. The article doesn't confirm whether the man was a bomber only that he was suspected of wearing a bomb belt.
For some reason this shooting really sobered me. Police in London shooting people on the Tube. Everything they've been through with modern history, including the IRA, and now we (and I know that they happen now that some police have guns there) begin to hear about police shootings in the Tube. It's shocking how the bombings change things that seem permanent, like the childhood image of English police.
Posted by binky at July 22, 2005 09:04 AM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs