Topic: Terrorism Incident outside UK Parliament

[TepidT2O]

My heart sinks...

[Iska]

This is hardly worth mentioning, but I wish reporters would ditch the current fashion for referring to someone as 'they' for fear of prejudging gender.  They describe medical treatment of two people in the parliament grounds and then say something like 'it seems clear that they are dead', but it isn't clear if they mean one or both.

[cdav]

From the Press Association: "One woman has died and a number of others have been hurt - including some with “catastrophic” injuries - in the incident on Westminster Bridge, a junior doctor at St Thomas’ Hospital has said."

Absolutely awful, hope all those injured can make a full recovery.

[killer-heels]

This is hardly worth mentioning, but I wish reporters would ditch the current fashion for referring to someone as 'they' for fear of prejudging gender.  They describe medical treatment of two people in the parliament grounds and then say something like 'it seems clear that they are dead', but it isn't clear if they mean one or both.

Does it matter?

[martinsquirtle]

awful news

[elsewhere]

terrible news indeed. wishing speedy recovery to all injured. any new from who may be responsible?

[Andy82lfc]

terrible news indeed. wishing speedy recovery to all injured. any new from who may be responsible?

As of now it seems just one lone psycho. Gotta say though the police/emergency response is incredible, it seems it might be all over but they are not taking any chances at all.

[Redman0151]

Without wanting to I've seen some pretty awful imagery courtesy of Sky News. Can you imagine fighting for your life, looking helplessly around you and just seeing pricks film you. Fuck social media and fuck people.

Yep people like this make my blood boil

https://twitter.com/Yga_Saddler/status/844579463975317505

[rob1966]

Yep people like this make my blood boil

https://twitter.com/Yga_Saddler/status/844579463975317505

Fucking scum.

[Cliff Bastin]

Yep people like this make my blood boil

https://twitter.com/Yga_Saddler/status/844579463975317505

That is unbelievable. Its beyond a parody.

[PhilV]

If you search #Westminster on Twitter one of the posts toward the top is some guy tweeting with a picture of Obama saying it's not ISIS fault (with a sarcasm tag) and blaming extremists in ISIS for this already... it's incredible how quickly people use a tragedy for their own tragedy. Sickening.


RIP to the lady who's passed away. Hope the others pull through.

[Xabi Gerrard]

Yep people like this make my blood boil

https://twitter.com/Yga_Saddler/status/844579463975317505

I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. I've been following this on BBC News and a reporter's been asked to describe the scene. She mentioned something along the lines of 'dozens of journalists using fixed position cameras and iPhones reporting on the scene". He looks like he's part of the press scrum and the angle of the phone looks like it's facing down the street (like the other press cameras) rather than at him for a selfie.

He may well be a lowlife but, unless you know who he is, it's too early to say.

[Alan_X]

He may well be a lowlife but, unless you know who he is, it's too early to say.

Exactly. People are far too quick to jump to conclusions based on nothing except... err... mobile phone images.

[kcbworth]

Not to mention 99.9% of people around there are usually tourists snapping away at absolutely everything. Any crowd etc could mean anything to a tourist just there trying to soak it all in - possibly disconnected for the timebeing. I have a general distaste for selfie sticks but not going to pass judgement

The people on the bridge. Well, that's a tough one. I think it's fantastic for law enforcement that these videos can be captured so readily. Not great that they're on the internet before anyone knows what's going on. Also potential these ppl may have been more useful if they'd tried to help (but once again, we weren't there so can't judge really)

[TepidT2O]

Fucking scum.

He may of course just be thoughtless...

[planet-terror]

Dreadful stuff.

[Libertine]

Wow, the acting commissioner of the Met was on the scene and is a significant witness of the event.

[Something Worse]

So sad, I hope those injured are able to recover.

[Redman0151]

Picture of the suspect being treated

Spoiler

[close]

Put in spoiler tags in case people don't want to see. Hope he lives so the scumbag can spend the rest of his days behind bars, and not be a martyr

[CheshireDave]

What is the difference between a member of the public taking a photo and sharing it online and a freelance photographer taking photos to make a gallery like the below?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2017/mar/22/house-of-commons-and-westminster-bridge-attack-in-pictures

[cdav]

From ITV's Chris Ship, sounds miraculous if she is ok:

A woman was pulled alive from the River Thames and is being treated by paramedics on a nearby pier. It's thought she was on bridge at time

[TepidT2O]

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty....



This could potentially be a terrible accident..

[Redman0151]

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty....



This could potentially be a terrible accident..

Accidentally mowed down a bunch of people on a bridge, crashed a car into Westminster and then stabbed a police officer? Behave

[pyroparty]

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty....



This could potentially be a terrible accident..

What the fuck?.....

[y2w902]

Is it one attacker or two?

[nick_8589]

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty....



This could potentially be a terrible accident..

Yeah that's why the met Rep refused to say wether it's all over or not

[nick_8589]

Is it one attacker or two?

Seems like it's just one

[Trada]

From ITV's Chris Ship, sounds miraculous if she is ok:

A woman was pulled alive from the River Thames and is being treated by paramedics on a nearby pier. It's thought she was on bridge at time

That brilliant news I really thought the person in the Thames was one of the two people that have died so far.

[Ashburton]

What is the difference between a member of the public taking a photo and sharing it online and a freelance photographer taking photos to make a gallery like the below?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2017/mar/22/house-of-commons-and-westminster-bridge-attack-in-pictures

Does irritate the fuck out of me when people are severely injured and those around do fuck all.  Fair enough, if you arrive a few minutes after the incident itself, but if it's the moment they have been injured then your first response should be shock, and to help.  It's absolute scum who start thinking of their twitter retweets, posting pics of severely injured people, and certainly isn't an excuse to share with the police considering central London has the highest density of CCTV cameras  the world.

[Redman0151]

BBC saying it could have been 2 people

[rob1966]

He may of course just be thoughtless...

Oh sorry, fucking thoughtless scum.

[CheshireDave]

Does irritate the fuck out of me when people are severely injured and those around do fuck all.  Fair enough, if you arrive a few minutes after the incident itself, but if it's the moment they have been injured then your first response should be shock, and to help.  It's absolute scum who start thinking of their twitter retweets, posting pics of severely injured people, and certainly isn't an excuse to share with the police considering central London has the highest density of CCTV cameras  the world.

What I am saying is, does it matter who took the photos?

I just find it interesting that's all when people go mad about the public taking photos of this sort of thing for their retweets when it's seemingly ok for freelance photographers to take the same photos (yet often a lot more HD and graphic) when thinking about their bank balance.

Anyway, not really the subject for this conversation. Sorry.

[Fruity]

Does irritate the fuck out of me when people are severely injured and those around do fuck all.  Fair enough, if you arrive a few minutes after the incident itself, but if it's the moment they have been injured then your first response should be shock, and to help.  It's absolute scum who start thinking of their twitter retweets, posting pics of severely injured people, and certainly isn't an excuse to share with the police considering central London has the highest density of CCTV cameras  the world.

I agree. Just seems highly disrespectful. In truth I don't even see why TV and papers would show those sort of images either. I honestly can't understand where the desire to pull your camera out and start snapping in the midst of tragedy comes from.

Can't bear facebook and that all that shite.

[gamble]

Horrified, gutted and upset for all those affected.

[Cliff Bastin]

Police man dead.

[zero zero]

5.30pm

The journalists who were in the press gallery are now being held in Westminster Hall. Armed police seem to be search the Palace of Westminster room by room - quite an undertaking, because it’s a rabbit warren, with endless cellars, cubby holes etc - and I’ve just seen a team go into the room where the Westminster Hall chamber is, guns raised as if they were on the alert. We’re told that they believe there may still be one suspect on the loose.

[TheShanklyGates]

Police man dead.

Can you (and anyone else who posts updates like this) source them please? Not saying you're making stuff up but it's important to be careful with information in the immediate aftermath of events like this.

[ashleyrose-66]

Can you (and anyone else who posts updates like this) source them please? Not saying you're making stuff up but it's important to be careful with information in the immediate aftermath of events like this.

BBC reporting it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-39355505

[alonsoisared]

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty....



This could potentially be a terrible accident..

fucking hell, always one isnt there

[TheShanklyGates]

BBC reporting it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-39355505

Cheers mate.

RIP