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It started as a whisper, dismissed by most, and anyway, even if it was true that the police shot him in cold blood, wasn’t he here illegally? He shouldn’t have been here in the first place, so really it’s his own fault. The whisper, of course, is that the Brazilian man shot on the tube was just an innocent man in the wrong place. Lies - as Blair and Bush well know - will always surface eventually, and some surface quicker than others.

In the heat of the situation the police found it easy to scrabble for justifications as to why a Brazilian man - Jean Charles de Menezes - and so did the rabid press ‘One down, three to go’ declared the Sun on its front page. Presumably in the light of an innocent Brazilian being gunned down they must now alter that: ‘One down, several million to go’.

The press are as much to blame for the shooting as the police and the goverment, as all of them have been responsible for creating an atmosphere of hysterical fear. For how else can this shooting be rationalised?

The man was not running.
The man was not wearing a heavy padded jacket.
He did not vault ticket barriers.
He did get on a bus.
He did get on a train.
He did sit down.
He did get grabbed by armed men.
He did get shot in cold blood by these armed men.

However, these were not terrorists, these were trained police, how else can they explain their actions, unless it was an hysterical reaction? They approached a suspect on the train with Tony Blair’s ‘we are under attack’ speeches ringing in their ears, along with the national media baying for the blood, and the express order to shoot to kill justifying a shoot first think later policy.

A complete independent investigation needs to take place, for the leaked news has wetted the public attitude for the full truth to out.

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Edit:

Here are some more links on the subject:

‘Offficers gagged us’ claim family of de Menezes - Times Online
Footage Contradicts London Police Reports - Yahoo News
The 10 questions that put Met chief’s job on the line - Daily Telegraph
Tube shooting family inquiry call - BBC
Fatal mistakes that cost de Menezes his life - The Guardian
Police chief denies cover-up in Brazilian’s killing in London - Yahoo News
Brazil sends mission to probe London shooting - Reuters
London police chief, shoot-to-kill policy, under fire - CSmonitor.com
Met chief defends bid to block shooting inquiry - Independent
Unanswered questions continue to mount for beleaguered Met chief - Independent
Police complaints official is suspended over inquiry leak - The Times