Raoul Moat Shot a Cop - There Was No Way Police Would Take Him Alive!

Is criticism of the police justified?watching," Mcallister said.
"Is the police force structure fit for purpose?" askedPolice Fail Three
Robert McFarland in a Guardian (link below) article ofPolice knew the car Moat was driving but failed to tell
the same name. He went on to say: "...Gloucester,the public. It was parked for a day in a town called
Ipswich, Soham, Whitehaven, and Birtley in Tyne &Rothbury for a day before police discovered it. Local
Wear...what they have in common is they are all thepeople were unaware of its significance.
site of one or more particularly unpleasant murders...Police Fail Four
that for days and sometimes weeks captured luridAfter the discovery of the car the police threw a
headlines in the nation's redtops. Each of these crimes'ring of steel' round the town but despite several
left a legacy if not of police incompetence, at leastsightings of him "wandering around" the police,
of police incapacity as to varying degrees the localcomprising the 'elite' of 15 police forces including
force was overwhelmed by the demands placed onLondon's Metropolitan Police (MET), failed to spot him.
it."Police Fail Five
Criticism of the police is increasing. CCTV,After seven days they had him surrounded and
camera-phones and camcorders are putting policepinned down in a field. Moat had been in one position,
actions under greater scrutiny than in years past. It'sopen to the elements for six hours but the cops lost
not that police incompetence and brutality didn'tpatience. It seems they got fed up with negotiating
happen in the past but they are now more likely toand decided to Taser Moat twice. It has been
get caught out with photographic evidence.suggested that the shock from the Taser caused
What happened in the Raoul Moat case?him to involuntarily pull the trigger on his gun. He died
Raoul Moat was in jail for assault. While he was theredirectly after the Taser attack.
his girlfriend Samantha Stobbart told him their 6-yearPolice Fail Six
relationship was over. After his release on July 1 heIt has taken five days for police to admit that they
prepared for revenge and in the early hours ofused an untested and lethal Taser Xrep that is
Saturday, July 3 he shot both his former girlfriend anddeployed from a 12-gauge shotgun with a range of
her new partner Chris Brown. She survived with100ft. It can incapacitate a person for 20 seconds,
critical injuries, Mr Brown died. So how did the policemuch longer than a regular stun gun. The police
fail Ms Stobbart and Mr Brown?officers were from the West Yorkshire force who
Six critical police failuresdo not have these weapons. It is reasonable to
Police Fail Oneconclude that these officers did not have the
The prison authorities warned the police that Mr Moatrequired expertise to use these Tasers. They
could be a danger to his former girlfriend. Theyuntrained amateurs using untested experimental
ignored the advice and he was able to obtain a gunweapons.
and attempt the execution. His girlfriend, SamanthaThe United Nations has declared Tasers as
Stobbart, escaped death but was badly wounded."instruments of torture" and yet the British
Her new partner, Chris Brown, was shot and killedgovernment issue them to the Police, Prison Service
trying to save his girlfriend. These two people areand Military.
members of the public the police keep telling us theyRaoul Moat was a violent man, he was dangerous
are there to protect.and he was also clearly a mentally ill man. The cops
Police Fail Twokilled him and I bet the order came from above. The
After the shootings Moat turned went to the homeBritish police have too much power, power that they
of his friend Andy Mcallister to give "his side of thedo not have intellect to handle responsibly.
story". He went back a second time after shootingSee the Guardian article here. I also recommend the
the cop."They knew he had been to my house oncearticle in the Independent for for information on the
- I would have thought they would have beenRaoul Moat case.