Police asking for evidence

[nicholab]

Why are people so daft that they don't phone the police with evidence straight away when they have filmed it?

[FN-GM]

What?

[Arthur]

Not sure what everdance is but I think @nicholab is referring to this...?

 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35023517

 

On Sunday, the Met appealed to anyone with photos or video of the attack at the Central Line station to contact them.

Edited December 7, 2015 by Arthur

[truebluesteve]

Ah...evidence! Got it :-)

[Grey-gear]

Maybe they think they can make money off it if they give it to a media outlet.

[E_G_R2]

Because times and mindsets have changed and things like this go onto the net via social media?

[TechMonkey]

Everdance?

[sippo]

I think it's absolutely disgusting that people would rather get their mobiles out instead of confronting the culprit.

[CAM]

I think it's absolutely disgusting that people would rather get their mobiles out instead of confronting the culprit.

 

I'd rather they alert the Police and keep back so they don't get their head chopped off by a nutter with a machete.

[speckytecky]

Sort of right, but in this particular instance if there weren't a few have a go heroes about lord knows how many people this terrorist would have killed and injured. I agree with your OP @Nicolab and like you I have problems with the flipping iPad inserting miss-spellings. Pretty clear what you meant - not the end of the world, and certainly not something for fellow Edugeekers to make fun of. My excuse as ever is I'm dyslexic anyhow.

 

Those folk who did capture images of the incident certainly aided the investigation so it's a bit of a quandary if they did right or wrong. It takes someone pretty brave and tough to jump in when a knife is being used as a weapon.

 

I'd rather they alert the Police and keep back so they don't get their head chopped off by a nutter with a machete.

[sippo]

I'm sorry, if there is the potential for kids to be harmed, then filming the incident on a mobile phone can wait.

[Grey-gear]

I think it's absolutely disgusting that people would rather get their mobiles out instead of confronting the culprit.

 

Though it is noble to help out and try and stop the person or persons in question it would be better alerting the correct authorities as @CAM has said. In most outcomes it may worsen the situation but there are times action would work as well it just depends what happens.