Well, I've avoided this long enough.
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It's in the rules that Police are allowed to kill suspected suicide bombers. He was one, thus they killed him.
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I guess "innocent until proven guilty" isn't all that popular over there.
Hmm, I'll have to say that both the police and the man killed were quite stupid--the man for running, unless it was just his natural reaction because of his past in Brazil as Jacob discribed it and the police for letting him get so far before shooting him if they truly believed he was a suicide bomber as someone else has already pointed out. For me, the last part seems most striking.
But it probably happened so quickly that the police didn't have much time to think before he was near the train when they realized, "Oh shite, the supposed suicide bomber is about to board a train!" Who knows what was going through the heads of either side. Because of that, my opinion is pretty neutral.
Edit: In response to off-topic genetic stuffs, 50% of genes do come from each parent, but Dino probably meant his phenotype shows more of his mother's genes. Phenotype is the expression of genes that can be seen in an organism. Some genes are dominant over others, so he could look more like his mother for some traits if his father's were recessive to his mother's. (I took college level bio this past year. That's a very simplified explanation, but I think it gets the right point across.)