"Apparently, the police were in plainclothes. This guy might have ran because a group of men were chasing him. Maybe he thought he was going to be a victim of a beating? Would you stop to talk to a group of people who were after you or would you run?"

If I were          and thought I was going to be beaten up, I wouldn't jump a turnstile and run onto a train; I'd run to a guard at the station for help and protection. These plainclothes policemen had been following this guy for half an hour -- plenty of time for him to find someone to ask for help if he'd been doing nothing wrong.

He may not have been directly connected to Thursday's attempted    ings, but was he a copycat    er? Did he in fact have wires sticking out of his coat? Seems clear that he must've been doing something besides wearing a heavy jacket in the summer swelter, something that aroused suspicion of criminal activity. Carrying       away from a      house, perhaps? Whatever the case, the fact remains that he wore garb that made him look like he was carrying a    , in the wake of local    ings; and he ran from police and ran onto a train in the wake of attacks on local trains. I can't blame the police for reacting swiftly and decisively to stop what had all the earmarks of an impending disaster. Even if the guy truly had no reason to run from the police aside from panic, he was still an idiot for dressing like a    er and acting like a criminal.