"Special bullets"?

[fechtbuch]

When they shot Jean Charles De Menezes, the police apparently used special bullets designed to instantly kill their target.
As opposed to the ones they usually use, the ones that make the "target" hop around going; "Ow! Ow! That really smarts!"?

Comments

[inkognitoh]

I was more horrified by the term 'Dum dum bullets'. That's what they're actually called apparently. Dum dum indeed.

[copperbird]

I knew there was a reason I read 'Day of the Jackal' - it even tells you how to make your own :)

[wascally_weasel]

The term Dum Dum refers to the place where hollow point ammunition was first manufactured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum-dum

Interestingly law enforcement users are allowed these while armies are not. I find the idea of 'humane' ammunition a strange contradiction.

[calcinations]

This just shows the meally-mouthed silliness about it all. The media avoided calling them dum-dums, yet everyone knows that what they meant. Yet one of them to the head is all it takes to kill someone.

But 2 of them emptied their automatics into the guy?

Methinks the firearms people couldn't take the stress and should not have been out there in the first place.
(And don't get me started on all the other things that were wrong)