On Sunday 24 July 2005 09:59 David Hansen wrote:
On 23 Jul 2005 16:18:32 -0700 someone who may be
wrote this:-
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and there is the question as to
why he ran into the station after officers instructed him to stop.
Assuming that they did so, there could be any number of reasons.
However, being chased and shouted at by several burly men, perhaps
waving guns around and perhaps claiming to be police officers, is
not the way to encourage people to stop and find out what is going
on. Remember that apparently these gunmen were not even wearing any
sort of police uniform.
I think there are two instinctive reactions an ordinary person might make to
that kind of shock:- run or freeze. In either case I don't think much
thought would be applied for a few seconds. If a clearly visable policeman
in uniform shouted to me in a commanding way then I'd probably be tipped
towards the freeze mode. But if I hadn't seen the uniforms I think I'd run
into the nearest crowd and then freeze.
Edgar