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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...

Sorry for the delay, Minstrel... had to get my ducks in a line!

I suspect the reasons for such a focused stoppage is connected to the attempted Liverpool Women's Hospital taxi bombing
where the driver locked in the Iraq-born asylum seeker Emad Al Swealmeen and he exploded his device.
Hence the reluctance for the BBC to use the words 'cab' or 'taxi'.

In this particular Kensington situation, the bare-bones of the Liverpool incident are similar and guess what's at the southern
end of Marloes Road...? Cromwell Hospital. But in the mayhem, it now seems the incident happened at Palace Gate,  around
700 metres east of the named road.

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.

In my opinion, the art of Journalism in its previous form is dead. We in the UK, now have servants of those in power due
to the simple fact that many of the ingrained politicians were Journalists and are aware of the trouble that these emotional
scribblers can bring.

Just look how they're currently harrying Boris Johnson at the moment.
Johnson worked at The Times, the Daily Telegraph, was the editor of The Spectator magazine and even hosted the BBC's
satirical current affairs show Have I Got News for You, a show where supposedly cerebral-celebrities and Journalists flex
their wit to make an audience believe they know better.

By the way, the update is that the BBC have now mentioned a taxi and that a firearm was recovered.

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!

Even just a quick glance via Wikipedia shows that the occurrence is unusual considering it happened in a wealthy
tree-lined suburb, where expensive sought-after property resides with private gardens and that rare creature in a
capital city, car-park spaces!
(Think the main character's friends from the movie 'Notting Hill')

Kensington is an affluent district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up
by Kensington Gardens, containing the Albert Memorial, the Serpentine Gallery and Speke's monument.

South Kensington and Gloucester Road are home to Imperial College London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal
Albert Hall, Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Science Museum. The area is also home to many
international embassies and consulates and the residence of many politicians and billionaires...

The nearby banks and bookmakers are at the north-end of (but not on) Marloes Road and the BBC image of what a
reader is meant to be Marloes Road, I can't find any part of that road that is that wide and have the same restaurant
fronts. So one would presumed the picture below must be the junction of Kensington Road and Palace Gate.

('...The force said the vehicle was stopped by armed officers about 15 minutes later at the junction
of Kensington Road and Palace Gate, before shots were fired...')




But here's the Google 'street-view' of that junction.

There's more to this and it probably needs sanitising first.