9 Hong Kong tourist dead in Manila hostage shootout

bd popeye said:

Maybe but..

The greater question is why the MPD did not take down the sniper when they surely had a clear shot at him?. Look at the photos.

Perhaps his comrades in arms did not want to be the ones to gun down a fellow, albeit, disgraced officer. All in all the Manila PD botched the whole ordeal. Period.

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They didn't have to gun him down, just look at how close their negotiators managed to get to the guy!

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bd popeye said:

I agree! By "shot" in American slang English I meant any chance to take him down. Heck that one negotiator was so close to him he could have tazed him.

A shot means they had a chance.

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sumdud said:

Seriously a lot of training..... Even if they cannot afford frame charge equipment.... I am sure they have money to get some mirrors, some glass breaking hammers (those small ones with a pointed end designed specifically to kill glass.) , and definitely some ladders!

If they have tear gas, I would think they have funds to get flashbangs... and the way they threw them in was absolutely disappointing...

A question: how much suspending media coverage going to help? The bus didn't have satellite TV I assume.

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rhino123 said:

I am wondering if it is possible for the Philippine police to at least block media transmission to a designated area only (in this case - the bus). So whoever inside the bus is actually closes to the outside world and would not know what the fxxk is happening out there.

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