Police Call Off Action in Support of Colleagues
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From Times Wire Reports
London’s armed police officers, who had been refusing to carry guns in an unprecedented protest in support of two colleagues, called off their action.
About 120 of the 400 members of the armed unit had joined the action to back the two men, who were suspended for shooting dead a man named Harry Stanley in 1999.
The accused officers said they thought Stanley had a sawed-off shotgun, but he was carrying a table leg. They were found guilty last week of unlawful killing and were suspended from duty.
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