Yep, we just shot a terrorist...wait a minute......

As you undoubtedly know by now, British Police have shot a suspected terrorist to death. After having done so, they have discovered that, oops, it was the wrong guy. The question is, should the British Police be punished or cited? My question is, why? It is understood that the "suspect" was acting suspiciously. The "suspect" ignored repeated requests to stop and halt. The guy ran onto the subway, where the attacks took place. What were the British Police supposed to do? Were they to have risked taking the chance that this guy was going to blow up another section of subway, a subway car and henceforth killing innocent people? Maybe it would be better to allow dozens of innocent people to be killed just to ensure the "suspect" didn't have his civil rights violated. Well, let's look at those "Civil Rights" of his. Does he have a civil right to act suspiciously in an area where terrorist activity has gone on? Does he have a civil right where run for the police and ignore their requests to stop? Does he have a right to run onto a train where terrorist attacks have occurred recently? He does? Oh, ok, well then I guess we shouldn't complain when another attack happens huh?
Let's look at the NY Subways. Many folks are complaining about the searches there. They feel it's an invasion of privacy. Well, the other option is to not search anyone, then wait for something to happen, and then complain about why something wasn't done to stop it. Where's the ACLU? Why aren't they suing the crap out of the NY Subway system? Crap, why doesn't the average American understand that a terrorist has a Constitutional right to bring a bomb on-board a subway train?! Morons with common sense, I'll tell ya!
How safe do we, as individuals, want to be? That's the question? Personally, I've not lost any civil rights because of these searches. I haven't taken a subway train either, but, I would not mind being searched if those with the powers that be feel that it would help to make things safer. What else can we do? If we don't search, we may miss something. If we miss something, someone's going to get blamed for that too. So, why not play it safe? This guy in Britain, he acted suspiciously, he ignored requests to stop by British Police, and, he ran onto a subway train, which had been targeted not once, but twice, for terrorist attacks. The police had a split second to react. I'd say they performed pretty well. If they had not done what they did, and, it turned out the guy was up to no good and blew up another train, wouldn't we then be calling attention to their not stopping him and letting him go?
It is a tragedy that an innocent person was shot to death. I feel for that person's family. However, if he was so innocent, why was he acting suspiciously, why did he ignore police requests to halt/stop, and, why did he get on board a train? Certainly, he must have known about the previous terrorist bombings. I guess we'll have to see how it turns out. However, I argue the British Police were justified in the shooting. All indications pointed toward this guy might have been a possible terrorist. And ignoring that would be a much more fatal mistake than what happened. It is tough to tell one family their loved one was shot and killed. It's another to tell dozens and dozens of families their loved ones were killed by a terrorist because the British Police were making every attempt to be politically correct.