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  Apparently, the bullet which lodged in a police radio, thus saving a life, was a police issue bullet.
  It strikes me that yet again the news gets ahead of itself, spurred-on by an innate facility to daemon-ise sections of the public while sanctifying any and all actions by the forces of the State.
  Could it possibly be that none of those involved in the original incident had the slightest idea of what actually went on?
  Or is it that, irrespective of the truth, the line put out must follow Orwell's Animal Farm dictum; Blue-serge legs=Good, denim/tracksuit legs=Bad?
  
  The Police shot a man in Hackney some years ago in a quiet suburban street. The police statement put out on the Radio4's one o'clock news I remember to this day,
  "I know nothing about the incident, all I know is that it was carried out by the book."

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