Britain Today.

[Minstrel]

@"BIAD" 

...here, we have to mainstream media articles that varies so much, one might believe they were two
separate incidents due to the specific parts being offered, but do not connect in the manner one is led
to believe.


The BBC: (This was published at 8.30pm on Saturday evening.)

Kensington: Man dies after being shot in police confrontation ...

...BBC:

Okay, we have a branded vehicle, a Mercedes. Was it a car or a van? The Mercedes was black, the van was black and so a reader
might assume the vehicle that is reported is a black Mercedes van.

The man died because the Police Force 'fired shots' -which is the diversity-loving BBC's way of saying the Police shot the man.
The Police state 'the man was seen entering a bank and bookmakers in an area near Marloes Road, Kensington, at about 15:05.
He was then seen getting into a vehicle and leaving the area'. However, the article fails to connect the 'vehicle' as a car or van.
So the man did something illegal that we're not informed about.
............................................

...
The Sun:

So now we know -with assistance from the image and footage, that a male was fired upon by Police when he was in the back
of a black Mercedes taxi. There's no mention of the driver and the Sun's headline refers to a robbery connected to this shooting
The BBC's article oddly leaves out the word 'cab'  or taxi in this London-based incident and implies more than one vehicle was
involved and that the man died, but not killed by bullets.

(They also fail to mention that this comes only three days after a similar incident in Philadelphia USA where a man was shot by
Police in the neighbourhood of Kensington) -Link:

Strange?

As far as we can deduce, he could have walked into the 'bank and bookmakers', thinking it was a pawn shop or that a gunsmith was in the premises. As you say, at no point do they say what he did, might have done or threatened that would demand a response of terminal force.

Thank God there were multiple reports - else we would never have known of this/these otherwise sketchy account/s.
As you, it seems (to me) that neither the journalists or editors in these 'news gathering & disseminating' enterprises should have been 'passed through' the vaunted halls of their respective institutions of primary education.

For those (aboard the RN3 Express) unfamiliar with the layout of greater London: Is Kensington (the vicinity where this took place - ie: might it be on the seedy edges of an otherwise affluent/prosperous district, with the common attendant denizens (think - rats and spittoons ---- or not))?
How far might the "Marloes Road" area be from the initial incident (meaning - the banks and bookmakers, concerned with his 'gun').
Did he have to stand on the street to wave a taxi down...or, was the taxi waiting for him?
Were any shopkeepers, bankers or bookmakers chasing when he was seen entering the taxi/car?

What, about this incident, would improve its value enough to place it above the bar that requires censorship & dishonesty... Or was it so far below the bar, that neither organization/journalist (including the Police reporter) cared enough to 'get things justifiably straight & complete'?
Who knows?

I wonder "who" (specifically) placed the phone call to alert the police?

Thanks!