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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM (627 Views) | |
| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM Post #1 |
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.......there are reports coming in over the wire of an apparent terrorist incident right outside or in the vicinity of the Houses of Parliament in London.... (The Guardian) Reports of shooting at House of Commons --There are reports of a shooting at the Commons --Man shot in entrance to the Commons. Appears to be a policeman down too (Jason Groves, Daily Mail - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 03:20 PM Post #196 |
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(The Guardian) Thousands of people have gone to Trafalgar Square this evening for a candlelight vigil.![]() The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, speaks during the vigil in Trafalgar Square to honour the victims of yesterday’s terror attack ![]() Home Secretary Amber Rudd also spoke at the vigil |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 03:21 PM Post #197 |
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(The Guardian) The former Manchester United footballer Gary Neville stood shoulder to shoulder with students, military veterans and city leaders in a vigil outside the town hall in Manchester. Neville, who chose to stand with members of the public rather than city leaders during the minute’s silence, declined to speak when approached afterwords by reporters. Led by the Lord Mayor, Carl Austin-Behan, a small crowd braved chilly temperatures for a minute’s silence for the victims of the Westminster terror attack. Among those paying tribute was Danny Standring, who like the murdered PC Keith Falmer served in the Royal Artillery. “It’s a horrible, horrible, horrible state of affairs,” Standring said. We must stand united against terrorism and oppression. Radicalism should be stamped on.” Stood next to him, Hemmy Spiggott, a former Royal Military Police officer, added: “It would be good to see everyone from all communities say we’re not having it. It doesn’t matter what faith you belong to, or whether you have no faith. “It’s a free country, we’re allowed to worship as we see fit. We’re not going to let people like that drive a wedge between us. We can only do that by coming together.” Yasmin Mannan, a student at Manchester university, said it was important that other British cities stood in solidarity with London. “I’m a Londoner so I was devastated when I heard the news. Manchester, like London, is such a diverse city that it’s important to show unity,” she said. “It’s made me more defiant because what the terrorists want is to change this way of living and co-existing.” |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 03:22 PM Post #198 |
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![]() (The Guardian) More from the Trafalgar Square vigil, where home secretary Amber Rudd paid tribute to “courageous and brave” police officer Keith Palmer, who was stabbed to death by the Westminster attacker. “He was courageous, he was brave, and he was doing his duty. And he was not alone in doing that. I know that all officers of the Met are like that and in my experience, so are all policemen. I want us to say thank you to them all for the great sacrifice and risks they take to keep us safe.” To applause from the crowd, she said of the attack: “They will not win, we are all connected and we showed that today by coming together, by going to work, by getting about our normal business, because the terrorists will not defeat us, we will defeat them. We are strong in our values and proud of our country.” |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 04:26 PM Post #199 |
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(The Guardian) An army veteran who was among the first responders to the stabbing of PC Keith Palmer told the Guardian he had no second thoughts about rushing to the scene of the terror attack. “I didn’t even feel I had a choice: there was nothing to hesitate about,” Mike Crofts, a former Army captain said, speaking for the first time since the incident. “Instinct kicks in.” Croft, who runs the Three Pillars Project, an organisation working with troubled youth and convicts, was leaving a parliamentary meeting about boxing when he saw the attack took place with Sgt Tony Davis, who had trained him at Sandhurst years before. “He came at PC Palmer from one side and I ran from the other,” he said, describing the feeling as “surreal”. ![]() Davis described the same moment to ITV’s This Morning: “There were people running, coming round towards the gate. All of a sudden I saw a large chap brandishing two knives come through the gates and start attacking the policeman. At that point instinct kicked in, I leapt over the fence because that guy needed assistance.” The two men started performing first aid on PC Palmer, and were quickly joined by Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood, who performed CPR. Palmer was pronounced dead on the scene. Croft, who left the army last year, said: “The unity and the teamwork showed by the police officers who were on the scene immediately, the other people who rushed to the scene initially and later, and the helicopter team, was heroic. It would compare with the casualty evacuations I’ve seen in Afghanistan.” |
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