In a sad and nearly predictable move, London police have become like the people they are chasing; terrorists. It is predictable because we live in cultures that continually seek retribution for violent crimes and they seek it using violence. It was predictable because The US and the UK are true believers in the myth that the only way to bring violent offenders to justice is through violence.
Like the terrorists, the police have killed an innocent man. How did he pose a threat if he was running away? How did he get shot 8 times though he posed little threat being unarmed and completely innocent. One report simply said the victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sounds like a police squad that I would fear. People should even think to themselves, "Should I go to the train today? No, if the terrorists won't get me the police might."
Forgive the sarcasm. But millennia of human history have tried to overcome violence with violence and the only reason the UK and US continue to do so is because we are good at it. It is our way of staying on top. Yet God constantly calls us as a "Christian" nation to overcome evil with good precisely because when we overcome evil with evil, innocent people die.
The caption for the picture: Matuzinho Otone holds a picture of his son Jean Charles de Menezes who was killed by UK police. Photo credit: Victor R. Caivano/AP
