Shooting of Stephen Waldorf
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title:
Shooting of Stephen Waldorf
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Stephen Waldorf was a 26-year-old man who was shot and seriously injured by police officers in London on 14 January 1983 after they mistook him for David Martin, an escaped criminal. The shooting caused a public outcry and led to a series of reforms to the training and authorisation of armed police officers in the United Kingdom. Martin was a cross-dressing thief and fraudster who was known to carry firearms and had previously shot a police officer. He escaped from custody in December 1982 and
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1983 London mistaken identity case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Stephen_Waldorf
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2023-12-02T13:25:49Z
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