You know that guy that was killed at Stockwell tube station on July 22, on suspicion of being a suicide bomber? Of not being one of the prime suspects of the attempted attacks the day before, but of being a person of interest. Or at least, you know the story I am sure.
And then he turned out to be a Brazilian electrician, who had lived in London for three years, who may or may not have had a valid visa, whose death sentence was due to the facts he lived in the same block of flats as a prime suspect, was wearing a bulky jacket, and had jumped the ticket barricades at the station after being warned by the plain clothes police to stop. And that he had taken a bus from Tulse Hill to Stockwell anyway, and obviously bus bombings, which had happened, being a lower priority than tube attacks.
Well, there has been a leak from the commission that is investigating the shooting. It has been reported that Senor de Menezes walked calmly through the train station, did not jump the ticket barriers, picked up a newspaper, only started running down the escalators when he saw a train at the platform. And got shot eight times in his seat, rather than held down on the floor. No mention at all yet of at which stage and how the police IDed themselves.
Oh, and a photo released (no, it isn't gory) show that de Menezes was wearing a denim jacket, rather than a puffy jacket which may or may not have held a bomb. Geez, I'm going to have those 'calmly getting on the train only to get shot in your seat' thoughts when I get on public transport tomorrow, I just know it.
The whole thing is getting scarier and scarier, and they are saying there will be sackings or resignations in the Met over this - Met equals Metropolitan Police Force. Are they serious when they say there were seven other near misses on the shoot to kill policy between July 7 and 22? Fuck.
No more I can say or think of on the subject just at the moment. A completely empty feeling about the whole fiasco currently.
Paul
And then he turned out to be a Brazilian electrician, who had lived in London for three years, who may or may not have had a valid visa, whose death sentence was due to the facts he lived in the same block of flats as a prime suspect, was wearing a bulky jacket, and had jumped the ticket barricades at the station after being warned by the plain clothes police to stop. And that he had taken a bus from Tulse Hill to Stockwell anyway, and obviously bus bombings, which had happened, being a lower priority than tube attacks.
Well, there has been a leak from the commission that is investigating the shooting. It has been reported that Senor de Menezes walked calmly through the train station, did not jump the ticket barriers, picked up a newspaper, only started running down the escalators when he saw a train at the platform. And got shot eight times in his seat, rather than held down on the floor. No mention at all yet of at which stage and how the police IDed themselves.
Oh, and a photo released (no, it isn't gory) show that de Menezes was wearing a denim jacket, rather than a puffy jacket which may or may not have held a bomb. Geez, I'm going to have those 'calmly getting on the train only to get shot in your seat' thoughts when I get on public transport tomorrow, I just know it.
The whole thing is getting scarier and scarier, and they are saying there will be sackings or resignations in the Met over this - Met equals Metropolitan Police Force. Are they serious when they say there were seven other near misses on the shoot to kill policy between July 7 and 22? Fuck.
No more I can say or think of on the subject just at the moment. A completely empty feeling about the whole fiasco currently.
Paul
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