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Sadly, things like this happen pretty frequently.

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Yes, but not in England. The police here aren't armed; only special firearms groups are, so there simply isn't the opportunity for many of the accidental/rash shootings that we see in America. However, there has always been real concern here (since a case years ago where the police shot someone holding a table leg) that "once they get the guns out, they're bound to shoot somebody" and this incident, while initially seeming like a difficult decision to take for which the police should've gotten the benefit of the doubt, is raising all those issues again as the doubt is being removed and it's starting to look like the police severely overreacted in an admittedly difficult situation.