Streatham "terrorist-related" attack, people stabbed 02.02.2020

[RubyToogood]

Also there isn't an A&E department within 1 mile of Streatham High Road. Both are several miles away.

 

[brogdale]

Probably traffic. With the High Rd blocked off it was chaos.

I'm sure you're right...but every minute must have seemed like an hour...for all concerned; how desperate.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Three injured, one serious.

 

[andysays]

With a certain inevitability, BBC website reporting local MP saying that the police had been watching perpetrator for some time

 

[sim667]

Also there isn't an A&E department within 1 mile of Streatham High Road. Both are several miles away.

It will be St Georges in Tooting I'd have though, they have A&E and a Major Trauma unit.

That said, people are always under the misconception that ambulances come from hospitals...... They don't.

 

[cupid_stunt]

That said, people are always under the misconception that ambulances come from hospitals...... They don't.

Indeed, my local ambulance station is just up the road from me, the hospital is right over the other side of town.

 

[IC3D]

Kings too is a major trauma centre so they may have gone there, also has a helipad im not sure Georges does.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Probably traffic. With the High Rd blocked off it was chaos.

Police probably sealed off the scene and wouldn't let ambulance staff on site until there was an all clear. Pretty standard with shootings etc.

 

[MrSki]

Just said on the radio that the incident followed a car chase so Streatham probably not the intended target if it was a terrorist related incident.

 

[Dan U]

Kings too is a major trauma centre so they may have gone there, also has a helipad im not sure Georges does.

Georges is on roof I think.

They aren't short of major trauma centres in that part of London. Guys too is one iirc.

 

[Pickman's model]

It will be St Georges in Tooting I'd have though, they have A&E and a Major Trauma unit.

That said, people are always under the misconception that ambulances come from hospitals...... They don't.

That's where they go tho and that's the important thing

 

[Peter Chadwick]

looks quite dead on Twitter

So does Katie Hopkins

 

[xsunnysuex]

Just give us half hour people have just started to eat! Omg!

 

[editor]

One eyewitness report says that a woman cyclist was attacked by this shithead.

 

[cupid_stunt]

One eyewitness report says that a woman cyclist was attacked by this shithead.

Reports are one man & two women were injured, not sure why one was a cyclist is important.

 

[two sheds]

or that she was a woman?

 

[MrSki]

Spoiler: Video from bus just after shooting

 

[Ax^]

undercover cop no ?

 

[Spymaster]

There seemed to be a lot of plain clothes, armed cops on the scene very quickly. At least 3 in that vid and another on the news. Were they tracking him perhaps?

 

[MrSki]

There seemed to be a lot of plain clothes, armed cops on the scene very quickly. At least 3 in that vid and another on the news. Were they tracking him perhaps?

I heard on the radio it followed a car chase so I expect those chasing him were also tracking him.

 

[Dan U]

There seemed to be a lot of plain clothes, armed cops on the scene very quickly. At least 3 in that vid and another on the news. Were they tracking him perhaps?

Being reported he was under active surveillance

 

[MrSki]

 

[LDC]

Spoiler: Video from bus just after shooting

Mobile surveillance officers from security service use motorbikes quite a lot I think. And does look like under active watching, those cops carrying bags with weapons and the baseball caps they put on for ID when incidents happen.

 

[MrSki]

Mobile surveillance officers from security service use motorbikes quite a lot I think. And does look like under active watching, those cops carrying bags with weapons and the baseball caps they put on for ID when incidents happen.

Yeah that seems logical. Getting through the traffic in London on a bike is a lot easier and probably not as suspect.

 

[Mr Moose]

Reports are one man & two women were injured, not sure why one was a cyclist is important.

or that she was a woman?

Well what’s the point of saying anything or having a forum?

It’s a bit of insight into how random/sudden/senseless, woman doing ordinary thing attacked. We don’t have to start fretting that every bit of information means someone else’s pain is less important.

 

[two sheds]

just seemed strange that someone would question that she'd been described as a cyclist

 

[Pickman's model]

On the other hand you won't be taken as a suspect

 

[Pickman's model]

Being reported he was under active surveillance

Heads will roll

 

[Dan U]

Heads will roll

The person responsible will probably be the next Head of the Met. Being in charge of the operation that killed De Menzes didn't seem to do Dicks career much harm

 

[Steel Icarus]

The copper that goes into the cafe says "There's been a terrorist incident" and "A terrorist has just been shot dead down the road", so it's pretty obvious this was a known person they were tracking