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Originally Posted by AussieTrooper
Doubtless his lawyers will try that one on.
It's always someone else's fault that you were violent/drug addicted/stole/whatever. It's never the fault of the offender, so a slap on the wrist and out they go to go harm someone else again.
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My comment is being misinterpreted again. I'm not saying the guys with the bat constitute an excuse for his behaviour, I'm saying that if they hadn't attacked the car he might not have driven into those people. If you see a hornets' nest with loud angry noises coming from it, is the sensible action to walk away or hit it with a baseball bat???
However, it's largely academic as the media are now saying the police potentially had multiple occasions to stop him before he reached the CBD, including a time when he was stuck in traffic. It's not clear why they weren't able to stop him at that time. They were apparently trying to box him in, which is obviously more sensible than trying to disable the car by shooting it.