Off duty cop shoots robber in Belfast

[fitzroyalty]

Exactly...we've one less knife wielding criminal on the streets this evening!

One more murderer.

Convicted already? Maybe the robber attacked the peeler with the knife? If he attacked me I'd put a bullet in him too.

Yes so would I, but in the foot or leg or something. Incapacitate the ****. Not shoot him dead. You'd think they'd have been trained on how to deal with situations like this.

[Milltown Row2]

Yeah again I'll wait. Hate knife crime and had he come at me I'd probably shoot him also (him or me situation) but these criminals don't care about what they do, or lives they destroy. would we be saying different had this guy actually killed an attendant at a station?

[lawnseed]

this will kick off the whole personal protection weapons debate again, i think it was last year the shinners wanted the guns off the cops when they were'nt on duty

[Puckoon]

I dont know about you fellas - but if news arrived at my old mans door that I'd been shot and killed trying to rob a store - he wouldnt have too many complaints. I think he'd be right.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

You go out with a lethal weapon with a threat to use it, don't be surprised what comes your way.

[Minder]

You go out with a lethal weapon with a threat to use it, don't be surprised what comes your way.

Hear hear, or here here as they say on the Gaa Board, when someone is armed with a deadly weapon they can have no complaints if they are met with lethal force. I am sure he was a "gentle giant".

[STREET FIGHTER]

Personally dont have a great deal of sympathy for the robber- well at least until i hear the full story.

But someone's father, son, brother, cousin has been killed which is never a good thing.

Saying that he may of been the lowest of the low and i suppose it's lucky no-one else was killed.

[Over the Bar]

Isn't it funny how those with right-wing views are quick to defend a policeman shooting a man with a knife dead without needing to know anything further about the case/facts/situation.

I pity the defendant gets you lot on jury duty!!

[sammymaguire]

Why do off duty police men walk around with loaded guns? 

Dirty cowardly bastards, the pair of them but he should not have been shot dead ffs

[Shamrock Shore]

Shooting the hoor dead sounds a bit ott. Do all off duty PSNI lads pack heat?

[The Real Laoislad]

If he wasn't out robbing he wouldn't have been shot, let that be a lesson to all of ye potential criminals

[Tony Baloney]

If he wasn't out robbing he wouldn't have been shot, let that be a lesson to all of ye potential criminals

Was that aimed at tyrone girl?

[Minder]

Isn't it funny how those with right-wing views are quick to defend a policeman shooting a man with a knife dead without needing to know anything further about the case/facts/situation.

I pity the defendant gets you lot on jury duty!!

I dont think he was going to peel an apple with the knife.

[Puckoon]

If he wasn't out robbing he wouldn't have been shot, let that be a lesson to all of ye potential criminals

Was that aimed at tyrone girl?

Poor choice of words there Tony. Even if Illdecide aims at her all the time.

[ardal]

I know of someone who got into their car after a few pints. smashed it into a mother and her young daughter. He didn't mean to kill them, he din't even have a lethal weapon; or did he. Perhaps he should also have aimed for their legs?