Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Accountability breeds response -ability.
A young Limerick man alleges he was shot at by the ERU last week. What is strange about this story is that he claims a plain clothes member of the unit emerged from bushes wearing a hoodie and brandishing a gun in a threatening manner (now that's not leading a good example to all the hooded scumbags in Limerick now is it?!?) :o> and then fired at him when he started to run. He was subsequently arrested and brought to Roxboro Garda Station and released a short time later. There was no indication from the individual that emerged from the bushes that they were indeed a member of the Gardai.
“He thought that his life was in danger so he ran away from what he thought was a gunman”.
According to Roxboro Garda Station there is an incident under investigation and the Garda ombudsman have been informed.
I think they are taking their "man marking" strategy just a little bit too far!
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Joe Duffy had a segment on garda assaults last year. Some guy in Dublin had his fingers broken and was thrown into the back of an unmarked car. These guys seem to think they are the God Squad or something. They are a serious accident waiting to happen.
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