The bloke shot dead by the police in Haringey last week.

When I asked why he was shot dead and not tasered like the nutjob who decapitated the 82 year old woman not that far away on the same day, I was informed that he had a knife to her throat.

Look at these reports.

Islington tribune - 16th September
Mr Joseph was shot twice by a police marksman during a siege in the basement flat of a house. He was shot once in the left arm, but died after being shot in the back of the left chest.

The Trumpet - 16th September
He was shot twice by a police marksman during a two-hour siege in the basement flat of a house. He was shot once in the left arm, but died after being shot in the back of the left chest.

BBC - 16th September 
Two shots were  circumstances surrounding Mr Joseph's death, earlier said two shots were fired by police during the incident. A post-mortem examination found the man died as a result of shock and haemorrhage caused by a gunshot wound to the left chest.

The BBC didn't report that he was shot in the back.

Why was the armed police officer standing behind him when he fired?

Why fire at his chest?

Is there not a chance that the bullet will pass right through him and hit the woman he was holding?

If he turned away from the armed police officer before being shot, why didn't those officer(s) behind him jump on him while he had his back to them.

And this surfaced four days before the news reports. .

Islington tribune - 12th September

RACIAL equality campaigners were asking questions of the police this week after a black man was shot dead during a siege at a Canonbury flat.

(I didn't put 'RACIAL' in upper case letters, that's the way it came)

Campaigners – while in no way diminishing the ordeal of the woman involved – called on the police to be more transparent, pointing out that this is the second black man to die with police involvement in the past two months.

A man died in Holloway from what are believed to be self-inflicted wounds after police were called to a disturbance in Trefil Walk in July.

This man has not been named either and Stafford Scott, of the race equality organisation The Monitoring Group said it was “troubling” that the names of those involved were being kept out of the public domain.

(You'd think that with domestic violence being common at this address, and the fact that an alleged 30 witnesses gave evidence, that at least one neighbour could have named him)

“There should be always be some concern when someone’s life has been taken by the police,” he said. “No explanation has really been given and the man’s name has been withheld. There are concerns. If we don’t know who they are how can we get to the bottom of it? With any incident which may raise people’s concerns information needs to be public so people are able to challenge the police version of events. It should be as transparent as possible."

“For someone like myself, who has a lot of experience of working with the police, what concerns me is that once you have a police negotiator in situ the key issue is about time and developing a relationship so that the person will feel safe about giving themselves up. For a man to be shot after two hours raises some questions.”

(I said that)

He also queried why the man wasn’t Tasered, pointing out that an incident in Edmonton earlier the same day, in which a woman had been beheaded, had been ended by police tackling the obviously violent perpetrator without shooting him.

Leading black commentator Alex Pascall OBE, one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival who now lives in Finsbury, felt there are too many instances in which people were being shot by police. “We need to be questioning the role of armed police,” he added. “I’m also not happy about the police investigating themselves as they do in some cases. The Stephen Lawrence inquiry exposed institutional racism about 20 years ago. I wonder if anything has changed.”

The Tribune asked the Met Police what their procedure was before the order to shoot someone was made, but received no response.

A solitary bouquet of flowers are all that remain on a concrete space at the scene of the shooting in Shepperton Road.

The carnations contain the words, “RIP ‘cous’” (cousin) written in ink and two crosses for kisses.

Many neighbours in the road expressed sadness that a man needed to be shot dead to end the siege.

One woman told the Tribune: “It’s a tragedy that this incident led to the shooting of a man. I heard a shot, and then another. The whole thing is very upsetting”