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From The Manchester Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/paris-supermarket-kosher-hero-attack
Lassana Bathily: the Paris kosher supermarket hero
A man who hid a group of shoppers, one with a baby, in a basement cold storage room at the Hyper Cacher supermarket to shield them from the gunman has been hailed a hero.
Lassana Bathily, 24, a Muslim shop assistant originally from Mali, in west Africa, was praised for risking his own life to save those led to safety.
“When they came running down I opened the door of the fridge,” he told French TV. “Several came in with me. I turned off the light and the fridge. When I turned off the cold, I put them in. I closed the door. I told them to stay calm and I said ‘you stay quiet there, I’m going back out’.”
Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator ...
[EDITORIAL COMMENT:- Now there is someone who is going to fail every single "profile" point established by the Department of Hype and insecurity.]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/paris-supermarket-kosher-hero-attack
Lassana Bathily: the Paris kosher supermarket hero
A man who hid a group of shoppers, one with a baby, in a basement cold storage room at the Hyper Cacher supermarket to shield them from the gunman has been hailed a hero.
Lassana Bathily, 24, a Muslim shop assistant originally from Mali, in west Africa, was praised for risking his own life to save those led to safety.
“When they came running down I opened the door of the fridge,” he told French TV. “Several came in with me. I turned off the light and the fridge. When I turned off the cold, I put them in. I closed the door. I told them to stay calm and I said ‘you stay quiet there, I’m going back out’.”
Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator ...
[EDITORIAL COMMENT:- Now there is someone who is going to fail every single "profile" point established by the Department of Hype and insecurity.]
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COL Ted Mc, Sir, I agree with the label "hero:" an ordinary person doing the right thing in extraordinary circumstances. Kudos to him as a hero.
As to profiling: a good example of why to not shoot first and ask questions later. Hostile act/ (clear)hostile intent before squeezing a trigger. But arresting on-scene? I'd want someone coming 'out of a lift' following such an attack to be asked a few questions regardless of skin color or stated religious preference.
As to profiling: a good example of why to not shoot first and ask questions later. Hostile act/ (clear)hostile intent before squeezing a trigger. But arresting on-scene? I'd want someone coming 'out of a lift' following such an attack to be asked a few questions regardless of skin color or stated religious preference.
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Capt Richard I P. Unfortunately some people still don't get it.
The recent case where the "Young, Black, Male" was stopped and questioned by the police because he had his hands in his pockets while he was "behaving suspiciously" by walking in sub-freezing temperatures (he was also arrested for "obstruction" when he asked the police officer why he was being hassled [fortunately the police officer was a "liberal" and didn't shoot the "offender" at the first time of "resistance"]) is one prime example.
The recent case where the "Young, Black, Male" was stopped and questioned by the police because he had his hands in his pockets while he was "behaving suspiciously" by walking in sub-freezing temperatures (he was also arrested for "obstruction" when he asked the police officer why he was being hassled [fortunately the police officer was a "liberal" and didn't shoot the "offender" at the first time of "resistance"]) is one prime example.
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I agree, Capt Richard I P.. Maybe if people looked at it this way it would help with understanding: If this had happened in Bathily's home country of Mali, and a white guy went into a store with a gun to "do damage" ... and then a white guy was seen "escaping through a goods lift" from the same building ... it would be reasonable for the police to stop that white guy and ask him a question or two. At least that's my opinion.
Is that profiling? Well, I guess it is. Does it bother me? Not one bit. It's for the good of everyone, including the innocent white guy who just happened to work in the store. The police had no way of knowing that when they saw him escaping through a goods lift.
Is that profiling? Well, I guess it is. Does it bother me? Not one bit. It's for the good of everyone, including the innocent white guy who just happened to work in the store. The police had no way of knowing that when they saw him escaping through a goods lift.
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CW5 (Join to see) Commendable restraint by the French police.
If you believe the news reports then there are large swaths of America where he would simply have been gunned down on the basis that someone thought that he could be a threat (abject apologies to the grieving family being tendered at about the same time as the law suit for damages for a violation of his civil rights is filed).
I most certainly WILL NOT go that far - although I suspect that there are, indeed, some parts of the US where that would have stood a good chance of happening.
On the other hand, sometimes we get lucky - like the time I walked into a bar in Hough and asked "How do you get to the hospital from here?" (you could still smell the wood smoke in the air). [The patrons kindly used a bar mat to draw me a map since I was so obviously either totally innocuous or {I'd like to think} too risky to chance. (The way to bet the rent is on the first option.)]
If you believe the news reports then there are large swaths of America where he would simply have been gunned down on the basis that someone thought that he could be a threat (abject apologies to the grieving family being tendered at about the same time as the law suit for damages for a violation of his civil rights is filed).
I most certainly WILL NOT go that far - although I suspect that there are, indeed, some parts of the US where that would have stood a good chance of happening.
On the other hand, sometimes we get lucky - like the time I walked into a bar in Hough and asked "How do you get to the hospital from here?" (you could still smell the wood smoke in the air). [The patrons kindly used a bar mat to draw me a map since I was so obviously either totally innocuous or {I'd like to think} too risky to chance. (The way to bet the rent is on the first option.)]
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