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Thread #105969   Message #2184548
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Nov-07 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Police guilty over Menezes
Subject: RE: BS: Police guilty over Menezes
No wonder he failed to respond in the expected manner!!-

There is no evidence whatsoever that "he failed to respond in the expected manner". He was sitting in his seat, when a bunch of big blokes, who weren't wearing anything indicating that they were police, started shouting at him and advancing on him threateningly. He got to his feet, somebody jumped on him and held him down, and another bloke fired seven bullets into his head.

He did absolutely nothing that any other innocent commuter wouldn't have done. And he had no reason to think the people attacking him were police.

He died because of a total cock-up by the police force, and at least this verdict has underlined that self-evident truth. The amazing thing is that the police had the nerve to fight the case on this minimal charge. Still if they hadn't the evidence wouldn't have come out in court.

I tend to assume that with the more serious charges such as murder and manslaughter brushed out of the way in favour of the health and safety charge the expectation was that the Force would put its hands up to that, and so avoid the evidence being presented.