shooting outside parliament

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Emerald can you name one other country in the world where you can merrily go about the business of murdering and maiming and then trying to get into Parliament whilst armed , where you believe the outcome would have been different ?

Emerald, as a police officer his job was to protect the public, which he did and sacrificed his life doing so.

Killers in the pay of the state aren't any better than those doing it in honour of an extreme ideology.

Really? Because one callously murdered four innocent people, and the other killed someone as an act of defence to prevent him murdering more.
Are you really this thick or just a disgusting arsehole?

Agree with doyou

Ignore it

Very brave police officer and MP

to all the families involved

Very brave everyone really

The paramedics and police and passersby that helped not knowing whether there was any more danger

Emerald his family must had an idea of his extreme views. Perhaps they could have helped prevent what happened yesterday.

The families always say 'he drank, did drugs, had girlfriends, never prayed...'

original No they don't. Most talk about how their children become sheltered, withdrawn and extremist before the terrorist events took place.

This whole thing gives me the chills. I've just been reading the latest updates of hiw he was driving into the pedestrians at 70mph....just how can a person be so sick minded and callous is beyond me, it's just awful. I read a mother of two was also one of the people who was killed and my heart hurts for the families of those involved in this tragedy. It's so, so awful.

Condolences to all the families of the victims and to the families of the injured

This man was 40 odd. How is this the responsibility of his parents? Maybe they don't live in the UK and know what their grown son is doing or how he has changed?

One of the murdered victims was on her way to pick up her daughters from school, so very sad and senseless.

The state went to considerable trouble to try to SAVE the life of the attacker, after he'd been stopped.

There's no such thing as a safe place to shoot someone, it always carries the risk of a fatality. So they used the force necessary to stop his murderous attack, and then attempted to save his life.

the flag at Buckingham Palace is now flown at half mast as times of national mourning and therefore should be today, although protocol might dictate they have to wait for national mourning to be declared?

At a time of intense stress people react in different ways. Unless you were there you dont know if the person on a phone was phoning 999 or not.

The poor junior doctor was so keen to help she ran to the victims. It may have been the first death she had to confirm herself. That same urge to help means you want to help questioners and it needs training to overcome that urge and keep silent. When tired and stressed she made a serious mistake but let's remember that she, with other staff, ran to help.

The police acted fast to prevent more murders. I wish the officer on the gate had been armed. Today is a day to think of the victims and praise those who helped.

While Tobias Elwood is being hailed as a hero lets also praise the junior doctor who also worked to try and save him. I cant find his name online today but I know he was there as a member (chair?) of the junior doctors committee.

I assume flags at half mast over Parliament. I passed by it 4 times a day but didn't think to look today. I love seeing the flag up there - it makes me feel very heart proud usually.

The doctor who responded names on my feed my colleagues knew him.

I'd now managed to find the name too

Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya

in case the picture above isnt visible for those on mobiles.

It's just been reported that IS have claimed responsibility for the attack

Oh of course they have. Even if they knew nothing about it they would have.

I am very sorry for what happened, and am sick of incidents like this now.

What I am getting increasingly pissed off with is certain people on twitter carping on about how 'we are all being selective in our sorrow and grief,' because 'no-one cares about the 29 people who died in Syria the other day, but we're all moaning about 4 or 5 people dead in London.'

They can fuck off! I reserve the right to care about an incident in my own country, in a place that's close to where I live. And I won't be told by some sanctimonious leftie that I am a bad person for not acknowledging an attack on Syria.

Also, there were a few Muslims going on about how they are sick of 'being made to look bad' and other similar comments. A few of them seem to care more about how they were 'looking,' than the fact that people had died, or been seriously injured in a terrorist attack!

I can see both sides their user, people made similar valid comparisons to the Paris attack response, however people will personally react to places closer to home. It's understandable, im sure Muslims must feel like everytime something like this happens the spotlight gets brighter...

Yesterday they were saying five dead, today four - an American man celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary has just been named as one of the fatalities.

It has made me wonder if the young boy on the floor may actually still be alive (even though there was a coroner's tent over that area last night in the photographs)?

Oh, no, that Mr Cochran was seemingly the man in that photograph. I really hope Reuters remove it now. They are a US news agency aren't they? That poor, poor family.

I agree that it's unfair to criticise people for 'selective grieving' as you put it @user1489261248 because quite simply it is human nature to be more affected by something that you are more directly related to.

Westminster is a very familiar area to a huge number of us, so the idea of something terrible happening there and 'it could have been any of us' is something very emotive. It's completely normal and understandable to give more attention to something that hits close to home. The two are not mutually exclusive either; just because people are paying MORE attention to what has happened in London doesn't mean that they don't care about the dreadful things going on elsewhere in the world.

In victim support they use the term 'ripple effect' to explain how something awful such as a murder or terrorist attack touches so many more people than just the immediate 'inner circle' related directly to the victim. It is likely that a vast number of people in the UK and beyond have been touched by the ripple effect in this situation; far more than would be by an equally abhorrent event in a place in which they had never lived/visited/known anyone.

So the suspect still hasn't been named. I wonder why.

Ive just seen in sky news thar there is a justgiving page for the police officers family

Names been released on sky news