Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!derome From: derome@ai.toronto.edu (Philippe Derome) Newsgroups: tor.general Subject: Re: Toronto Police Message-ID: <89Jan23.093655est.38021@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Date: 23 Jan 89 14:36:49 GMT References: <157@aimed.UUCP> <4674@hcr.UUCP> Distribution: tor Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Lines: 20 In article <4674@hcr.UUCP> paulg@hcrvax.UUCP (Paul Gooderham) writes: > >I can't believe the public whining that has been going on. People >seem to be siding with the criminals against the police. > > - a knife weilding man rushes a policeman who then shoots the man. > > - the youthful driver of a known stolen car tries to run down two > policemen and ends up shot > >In both these cases currently popular in the press, the criminal >is trying to kill the policeman and the policeman strikes back. In my uderstanding, the policemen (man?) shot in the back of the car. Perhaps, this was not self-defense. We will see what the justice has to say. >--- >Paul J. Gooderham (std. disclaimer) Philippe Derome