Witness: Police Were Slow to Respond, Confront Woolwich Terrorists Because They Were Armed

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Listening to an audio eyewitness account (presumably UK radio) of today’s London terror attack , I noticed the following noteworthy exchange:

Eyewitness: “(after dumping the body in the road)…they then went back to the park. They’re standing there, oh, with a knife in the hand, waving the gun about. I’m on the phone to the police telling them ‘you need to get them here, where are they?’ They took 20 minutes to arrive, the police, the armed response.

Radio Host: “And were there any other police there before the armed response?

Eyewitness: “There were police at the end of the road, they weren’t coming just because I think … they had a firearm. You could see police, but there was no police in the vicinity of the armed attackers.”

Interview link:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1407873-woolwich-attack-eyewitness-james#t=2m32s

The above exchange starts around 2:30

A government that refuses to confront murderers will soon lose its legitimacy. On the other hand, at least PM Cameron was not slow at all to describe the crime as terrorism.