A man shot by a police officer in Surrey has died

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1. R I E P 🙏

2. Wait for the riiots……

3. I would wait for more information before forming an opinion, but I find this dodgy. Why send a firearms officer to break up a simple fight?

4. IOPC..'Sadly, the man died in hospital yesterday (15 August).  
   We have established, via police call logs, that shortly after 12.30am on Sunday, Surrey Police received a report of an altercation on the street, where a man was reported to be carrying a firearm on Nursery Road in Knaphill, Woking. The caller reported that the man then went inside an address. 

   Armed Surrey officers arrived shortly afterwards and approached the address, with cordons put in place. Police body worn footage shows officers calling for the occupant of the address to come to the door with nothing in their hands. The man opened the door and appeared to point a weapon in the officers’ direction.  

   One shot was fired by a firearms officer, which struck the man, shortly after 1.20am. A police baton round was also discharged.  

   Officers provided immediate first aid. An ambulance was requested, and the man was taken to hospital.  

   IOPC regional director Mel Palmer said: “This is a tragic incident during which a man sadly lost his life. We have met with the man’s family to explain our role. Our thoughts are with them, and everyone affected by this incident. 

   “Fatal police shootings are rare. Given a person has died it’s important that an independent investigation is carried out to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident, including police actions and decision making and the use of lethal force.  

   “Our investigation is in its early stages, and we will keep the man’s family, and the force updated as our investigation progresses.” 

   After being notified by the force shortly after 2am, we declared an independent investigation and sent investigators to attend the scene and the police post-incident procedures, where officers provided initial accounts.  

   A scene examination took place on Sunday and house-to-house enquiries were carried out. A non-police issue weapon was located at the scene and has been seized.  

   We have obtained police body worn footage and police logs, which we are reviewing. The Coroner has also been informed.'

5. Probably a future doctor or lawyer, never done anything wrong before, right?

6. It's like mini America now not Britain

7. If I remember correctly that guy was holding a weapon in front of the other guy.

8. Police to police the police is like saying Jimmy savel can decide if he is guilt or not durrrr

9. Jesus, so sad, a criminal was shot. Sarcasm by the way.

10. SURRY firearms officer shoots Welsh man

11. Woking is the same place Prince Andrew claims to have been at for a pizza express outing when in fact he was being a dutty rascal with Virginia Roberts

12. Never mind

13. Here we go with the comments again. Nothing about the facts just a bunch of immigration comments or something to speculate the race of the officer or the bloke who got shot. It's all the same now tbh.. Getting kinda boring

14. 100% white guy I know someone who knew the person that has died like it matters

15. I really hope this doesn't cause more riots. This country is at boiling point at the moment.

16. Was it a non english with "mental health"..o them police will be in foe it now

17. He came here…."for a better life"