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Original poster

To find this picture horrific and that she was right to do what she did

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pigletmania · 21/01/2010 14:59

I have just seen this heartbreaking image of a young girl of 15 years, clutching a few pictures mabey to sell for food and water, shot mercilessly by Haitian Police. She did what she had to do in that situation, for those who agree with the Police how would people react if they had nothing and were starving and thirsty for days.

Its all very well and good trying to pass moral judgment from our lovely warm house, with plentiful food and water and knowing where our next meal is coming from.

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pooexplosions · 21/01/2010 15:20

Later reports suggest that the police were firing above the crowd to disperse looters and that she was accidentally shot, rather than gunned down. Who knows?

GypsyMoth · 21/01/2010 15:22

she was killed?

thatsnotmymonster · 21/01/2010 15:23

Have you got a link?

ChilloDOESNOTLIKELIARShippi · 21/01/2010 15:25

It's horrific. It really makes me feel humble, very useless and extremely grateful.

Jimmychasesducks · 21/01/2010 15:28

why post thi in AIBU
do you think anyone is going to argue with you?

violetqueen · 21/01/2010 16:15

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/20/haiti-earthquake-teenager-shot-police

Not clear whether she was shot deliberately or by accicdent.
Heartbreaking - 15 year old girl ,amongst all that anguish and chaos still managing to dress in girly pink ,and nicking a picture with a pink flower.
Seemed even more heartbreaking being such a trivial thing to take - you can kind of imagine her wanting a pretty picture....

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pigletmania · 21/01/2010 16:40

Violetqueen thanks for the link sorry forgot to put one as my dd wanted something and tantruming at the time of writing. Well jimmy I have read some comments in the Daily Mail and some are in agreement with the police and some are not nice, saying that the girl got what she deserved

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pigletmania · 21/01/2010 16:42

She was just a child fgs just hearbreaking and was shot in the head.

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pooexplosions · 21/01/2010 17:58

Never read comments in the Daily Mail, they will make you doubt humanity as a whole. I don't know who moderates them but they are slighlty to the right of Hitler.

morningpaper · 21/01/2010 18:01

Yes it's horrific but the whole thing is horrific

Can you even imagine the entire infrastructure collapsing and no one even being able to drink WATER? No medical supplies, no policing, no food - do you think the police and fed and watered and paid? It's all a fecking MESS

edam · 21/01/2010 18:03

poor lass. poo is right about Mail user comments.

nancydrewrocks · 21/01/2010 18:11

You are right no one can judge anyone in those circumstances.

Not the poor child who was trying to survive, nor the police who are not immune to errors (reports suggest this was an accident) when they are operating in conditions they could never ever have imagined they would have to.

Absolutely tragic.

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pigletmania · 21/01/2010 18:28

Yes its a horrific situation how dreadful, i think that anyone would do anything really if they were starving and thirsty

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ImSoNotTelling · 21/01/2010 18:40

I find it hard to understand why anyone would not understand people looting in those circs. With no food and water for yourself and your family, and a wide open supermarket over there, what are you going to do?

Situation like this all bets are off really aren't they.

If I go and look at the DM comments I'm going to cry aren't I.

sarah293 · 21/01/2010 18:43

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Doodleydoo · 21/01/2010 18:53

Don't do it ISNT, the DM have no sympathy and have to say that as I worked for them so yes they really are like the comments they make and it was one of the most satisfying moments to hand in my notice there. (Although the holiday was good....)

I really hope that this girls death was an accident and cannot ratify with myself how the police can take this sort of action against a child.

junglist1 · 21/01/2010 19:17

Oh my God anyone justifying this needs help IMO. Poor kid.

ImSoNotTelling · 21/01/2010 20:09

I had a look and you have to search hard to find the few awful comments, the vast vast majority are saying how awful it is and how disgusting it is that anyone thinks otherwise.

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pigletmania · 21/01/2010 22:42

yes you have to look at the worse comments bit and some people have said some not very nice things.

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Jimmychasesducks · 21/01/2010 22:45

pigletmania sorry, I just could imagine that anyone would feel anything but horror at the poor child being shot, that is why I didn't understand the posting in AIBU, so
YANBU it is awful

DonttellDH · 21/01/2010 22:51

Slight deviation from topic but

'Police were criticised for their absence from the streets in the first few days after the quake, compounding a sense that the Haitian state had ceased to function' wtf!

WickedWench · 21/01/2010 23:10

The nasty comments are sadly to be expected.

Like with Hurricane Katrina where an element of the American media called the black people taking food from wrecked shops looters and the white people doing it were called brave survivors or something similar.

Dreadful whether an accident or not.

Monty100 · 21/01/2010 23:20

That is absolutely terrible.

I feel like a voyeur for even looking. Tis a sick world we live in sometimes.

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