We need more armed police – but do they have to be like the ones who killed Mark Saunders?

I doubt there is a single person reading this who has not been appalled by the case of Mark Saunders, the barrister shot dead by police while depressed, drunk, desperate and having pathetically taken pot shots at houses with his shotgun. While I don't believe that the jury could have reached any other verdict than the one they did – if the police marksmen swear on oath they felt threatened and that Saunders was a danger to the public, then clearly it must be just the way they describe it – I doubt I'm the only person who believes that this poor man deserved a better chance than the one he got.

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