German police officer dies after stabbing on Friday

What's really disgusting is that No one here really cares at all about police getting murdered. They only care about the offenders. I would think any actual police person would think exactly that.

I have no idea how you come to the conclusion police are not human to me, that's too ridiculous.

Did something not already happen in this country?

What about the guy who stabbed young kids and their teaching assistant?

I'd call that fairly serious.

If a big lump of a fella starts stabbing in Grafton Street or O'Connell Street, how many will he kill before he is overpowered?

And there is no doubt, it will happen here. Its only a matter of when.

I don't believe the cop hesitated to shoot in case it was racist. That's frankly ridiculous. They hesitated to shoot because in a busy space where it wasn't clear what was going on (the bypasser who mistakenly tackled the wrong person for example) opening fire brings a whole new level of risk to the public into the equation.

Yes, in hindsight maybe he could have opened fire sooner, but their training is meant to cover all eventualities, and learning to take a beat to see what's happening is not, fundamentally, a bad approach. The idea that they should be taught to shoot first and ask questions later though, as @Manic Moran is suggesting, is far worse in the longer term, IMO.

As Uvalde shows, it doesn't even work anyway when there's a real threat - only against some doped up kid who's probably not even got a real gun.

maybe there is a cultural diffrrence, or not, i dont know. One cant tell from one video.

If there is some difference between u.s. and e.u. cops in readiness to fire it would probably be down to the u.s' screwed up relationship with firearms.

if you want to see a u.s. officer take his time firing his weapon, and making a bit of a balls of it, look up the case of Nika N. Holbert.

After watching the video myself I had to double take this piece of reporting from.The Guardian.

He 'appeared to be cut in the neck'.

The cop was stupid, he was tackling the wrong guy, had turned his back to much more serious threat, the real attacker armed with knife.

It was only when he was attacked did the police shoot the armed man.

If one was to adopt a conspiracy mindset one could argue they weren't very proactive when in ending situation when it was right wingers being attacked.

Expect more votes for AfD.

There are going to gain even more seats in EU elections.

Apart from the fact that they did.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2024/0531/1452374-germany-attack/

On Friday afternoon

Was it buried?

It definitely was not anywhere near front page in early afternoon.

The Polizist was brave and I'd hope I would find similiar courage when a knife is produced.

AfD are going to do diddly-squat in Baden-Würrtemberg and especially not in Mannheim where just under 50% of the population have a history of immigration. Not a very pretty City but nothing like the hell-holes of Belguim for example.

normal journalistic practices.

Let’s talk about the language of journalism:

Remember this?

"Not everything on your feed can be trusted", indeed.

Whether you agree with a politicians beliefs or not there's no justification for this type of thing.

We see politicians here getting drinks and eggs thrown at them and protests outside their homes in this country, the rule book has to be ripped up and redrafted for people running for political office now everywhere, Ireland in particular seems to be waiting for something awful to happen before any action is taken.

Places that are quickly moving outside of the rule of law.

Bizarrely i notice the people who are up iñ arms about any attack on irish politicians are not here condemning this.

I thought people so passionate about this would be consistent in their views.

It's not on when you cant campaign without fear of being attacked.

ITs 80 years to the day since D-Day today. Could someone please start a thread about that please as I still can not :(

It’s the usual, these attacks are completely unrelated to the religion, no siree bob. It must just be a mental health issue now shut up. The mainstream press have shown once again that they are completely untrustworthy.

He was murdered by a vile Islamist - who thought it a good idea to offer a Muslim call to prayer at the day of remembrance for the officer ?