Seems to be the conclusion reached by the idiot below, as linked to by Avedon Carol (I’m not giving this moron a link myself):
Many people will take this time to second-guess the London police and British special services. They will note the tragic consequences of a shoot-first policy that killed an apparently innocent man just trying to get to work, although one would expect that an innocent man would have stopped when commanded to do so instead of running for the nearest subway car. The police themselves will now second-guess themselves when it comes to making split-second decisions that could mean death in either direction.
Debate on tactics has its place and its benefits, but when such debate comes, it has to take place in the proper context — and that context is the war which Islamofascist terrorists have declared on the West.
In its way, this shows the folly of treating captured terrorists as if they were POWs. The Geneva Conventions exist to prevent civilian authorities to make these kinds of choices. It forces nations engaged in warfare to clothe their soldiers in recognizable uniforms so that civilians do not face these deadly consequences. The death of Menezes shows the wisdom of summary executions of infiltrators, spies, and saboteurs during wartime in order to discourage their use. The use of deadly force on people in civilian life in part because of a poor choice of outerwear during a hot summer season directly relates to the kinds of attacks that al-Qaeda has conducted on civilian populations.
A healthy dose of blame-the-victim there, with some nice pseudo-macho talk about sacrifices the blogger himself is very unlikely to make. It’s the quintessential rightwing reaction to any incident in which the wrong people –i.e. not themselves or their friends– are victims of the state. I’ve seen a lot of people elsewhere as well saying Menezes was to blame for his own death for wearing bulky clothes and running away when armed people ordered him to stop –and here I thought the death penalty had been abolished in the UK, but apparantly an exception has been made for wearing warm clothing on what is allegedly a summer day.