~ Cross-posted at European Tribune & Daily Kos ~
UK London Met Police Assailed over ‘shoot to kill’ Blunders
Leaked report: Botched operation led to innocent Brazilian’s death
See VIDEO of the fatal minutes that led to the death of an innocent Brazilian man, going about his daily business.
● Fatal mistake
Aug. 16: ITN’s Dan Rivers reports, that documents from an independent investigation reveals police blunders.
MSNBC
LONDON (AFP) – Police in London were under pressure after leaked documents revealed that a Brazilian killed on suspicion of being a suicide bomber was not trying to evade police and was already being restrained when he was shot at point-blank range.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, refused to confirm or deny the new information — broadcast by ITV News — which contradicted earlier police claims and witness statements.
Police shot the electrician, 27, at point-blank range after he boarded a subway train on July 22, one day after four suspected would-be bombers tried but failed to repeat the July 7 blasts that killed 56 people.
Initial reports said de Menezes had been acting suspiciously — wearing a bulky jacket, jumping a ticket barrier at Stockwell Underground station, south London, and sprinting onto the train.
But witness accounts and photographs leaked to ITV painted a different picture, showing the man in a light denim jacket walking calmly into Stockwell station in south London.
More to follow below the fold »»
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Sir Ian Blair Tried to Stop IPCC investigation!
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~ Cross-posted at European Tribune & Daily Kos ~
Matozinho Otoni da Silva, the father of the slain 27-year-old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, shows a photograph of his son. Anti-terror police in London were under pressure after leaked documents described an alleged catalogue of fatal errors that led to the mistaken shooting of the innocent Brazilian man.(AFP/File)
They also revealed that de Menezes — whose death brought to light a secret Metropolitan Police “shoot to kill” policy in dealing with suspected suicide bombers — was restrained by an officer before being shot eight times.
In addition, a police officer outside his flat said he failed to videotape de Menezes when the Brazilian left home as he had been on a toilet break.
Relatives and campaigners demanded a public inquiry.
“My family deserve the full truth about his murder. The truth cannot be hidden any longer. It has to be made public,” said de Menezes’s cousin Allessandro Pereira.
Alex Pereira, victim’s cousin at Tulse Hill?
The Justice4Jean Family campaign said the public had been misled. “We must ensure that the full lessons of this death are learnt by the authorities so that no other innocent Londoner suffers a similar fate,” it said.
“There’s obviously some level of incompetence here or some serious breakdown in communications with the various officers involved in surveillance,” Harriet Wistrich, lawyer for the de Menezes family, told Channel Four News.
The ITV report indicated the operation was flawed from the start as police monitored de Menezes’ block of flats in Tulse Hill, south London, where they believed two suspects in the July 21 attacks were living.
The undercover officer who was supposed to identify anyone leaving the building admitted he had been away from his post when the Brazilian left, “relieving myself”.
“At this time I was not able to transmit my observations and switch on the video camera at the same time. There is therefore no video footage of this male,” he was quotes as saying.
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Well, they got their execution rights.
“At this time I was not able to transmit my observations and switch on the video camera at the same time. There is therefore no video footage of this male,” he was quotes as saying.
ITV News also revealed that de Menezes — whose death brought to light a secret Metropolitan Police “shoot to kill” policy in dealing with suspected suicide bombers — was restrained by an officer before being shot eight times.
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Turns out that Menezes was a contract electrician, which has sparked some speculation in the independent press about him possibly having had some sensitive knowledge about the electrical surge in the London underground that coincided with — and likely triggered — the 7/7 explosions.
The surge trigger theory would explain why the train floors buckled up — not down — as several eyewitness reports have revealed.
The floors could only have buckled up if the bombs were placed under the train floor, and if they were placed under the train floor then it makes sense that the widely reported electrical surge could have acted as the trigger.
A backpack bomb inside the train could not have produced the upward buckling.
In summary,
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I was writing a link to your comments in the two diaries @dKos!
Appreciate your insight, analysis and contribution in a special atmosphere of BooMan’s Place, where diaries don’t fly by, but get reviewed, debated and rewarded.
Would appreciate getting to know you at the bottom of the Frog Pond!?
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Thanks for the warm welcome, Oui!
I gotta get off line for an hour or so now but I posted a hello to you at Froggy Bottom and will be back on that thread soon.
Peace!
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from an employee of Stagecoach, the company responsible for the majority of London buses.
Our contact works a route roughly one mile from the site of the bus bombing on July 7. The bus driver pointed out that the number 30 bus was the only one to be re-routed after the initial bombs went off in the London Underground,
every other bus carried on its normal journey, but for some reason this bus was diverted.
The driver notes the following about CCTV maintenance.
“CCTV gets maintained at least 2 or 3 times a week and can digitally store up to 2 whole weeks worth of footage. this is done by a private contractor….So when I heard that the CCTV wasn’t working on a vehicle that’s no more than 2 years old since last June…..I’m sorry that’s rubbish, I work for the company I know different.”
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Video cameras are installed everywhere for our “safety,” yet so frequently footage of the bad guys goes missing.
Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? Timothy McVeigh was filmed in and around the Ryder truck with an accomplice by many video cameras pointed at the Alfred P Murrah building, but none of those tapes ever saw the light of day, enabling the government to claim that McVeigh was alone when he drove that truck filled with explosives to the scene. The government could have used those tapes in court to convict Timothy McVeigh had they really depicted what the government said they depicted. But they didn’t.
Fast forward to 9-11. Again there were numerous cameras covering the flight path of whatever hit the Pentagon, but the government only released one single frame of footage from one camera. That single frame of footage is too fuzzy to draw any conclusions from, but the massive disconnect between what the government says hit the Pentagon and what numerous eyewitnesses say hit the Pentagon is highlighted in this excellent 3-minute flash video.
Finally in London, the most surveilled city in the world, that camera in the bus was implausibly not working on 7/7 as you point out above, and then the video of de Menezes leaving his apartment is also not available for the stupidest reason yet. Makes me wonder whether de Menezes came out of that apartment at all.
Wheels within wheels….
No “Last Hurrah” debunker brownshirts.
Glad to see you diary this, Oui. I left a comment in one of Susan’s fp-stories earlier, but had no time to elaborate.
Now, the de Menezes’ family solicitor is weighing in, see this story from the Guardian:
If this information is confirmed, then the Metropolitan Police will have a major credibility problem in the future.
Well, so much for the Blairite apologists who insisted that one must understand the extraordinarily comlexities
involved in this situation for the fine and noble British police force.
Complex assasination is still an assasination, of course. And how do they respond now that the evidence is out there???
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waiting in turn to be “relieved”.
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Outstanding work, as usual Oui!
I do not want anyone to think I am wearing a tinfoil hat here, but doesnt it seem odd that these kind of things are happening a lot nowadays!
Doesnt it seem wierd that some things just do not add up as suppose too?
I personally think that Blair an dBush are doing things to save themselves from the ICC and that is my only view on some things going on nowadays.
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Professor Paul Rogers, of Bradford University, said the Met’s armed officers’ actions appeared to have parallels with methods used by Israeli security forces and US troops in Iraq.
He said ‘The tactics the Met appear to have used this morning are very similar to the very tough tactics that the Israelis use against suspected suicide bombers.’
In the Middle East, security forces tend not to shoot suspects in the chest or abdomen because of the risk of detonating explosives on bombers’ waistcoats.
Prof Rogers said: ‘To be blunt, they go for a head shot.
The Road Map became the Road to Baghdad Map
London Met Police – Anti-Terrorist Branch SO-013 trained by Israel’s Shayetet 13?
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Excellent diary, per usual! The details get “curiouser and curiouser” the more I read about the murder and the explosions-I hope more can be dug up and forced into public view.
Oui, MSNBC News is doing a very good, long report on this story… showing the documents … visually tracking the path of de Menezes…. and now a graphic artist’s reenactment of what happened in the train.
The reporter has a British accent…
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Leaked report: Botched operation led to innocent Brazilian’s death
See VIDEO of the fatal minutes that led to the death of an innocent Brazilian man, going about his daily business.
● Fatal mistake
Aug. 16: ITN’s Dan Rivers reports, that documents from an independent investigation reveals police blunders.
MSNBC
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Glad you went looking! I should have but usually I can’t ever find the video I want at MSNBC.
Just spotted this new headline and story snippet at The Observer:
No bulky coat, no wires hanging out of it.
He didn’t run into the station. He didn’t leap the barrier. His actions were those of a commuter headed for work.
There was no reasonable suspicion, much less probable cause, to believe this guy was doing anything whatsoever wrong.
And the police jumped him, pinned him down, and executed him.
And the first stories we get are chock-full of fabricated details meant to suggest that the shooting was a justifiable response to a reasonably perceived terrorism threat.
And we’re supposed to trust the Bush-Blair “coalition” to make the world safe? This was criminal incompetence at best. At worst, it’s tinfoil hat territory.
They kill. They justify killing. They enjoy killing. They profit from killing. They use killing to keep others silent.
They kill.
Ecellent diaries, Oui! I’m so glad you are around to provide us these accounts since the “land of the free”‘s media won’t.
“Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight, they leave all that to the poor. Yeah!”
No, No!!
It’s:
Politicians hide thenselves away,
Making war just for fun.
Why should they go out to fight,
They leave that all to the poor.
Ye-ah!!
–Ozzy Osbourne
No, the “making war just for fun goes” with “wait till there judgement day comes”
did not wear a heavy jacket, did not jump the turnstiles. There was no challenge to him and no warning. He was sitting down in a subway car when police approached him. He was shot dead while lying face down on the floor of the subway car and restrained by two cops. He was killed because he looked a little like some other suspect from the same building. Some undercover cop got a glance at him while having a leak.
This is an outrage.
devoted a segment to the story on “Countdown” tonight; folks might want to try and catch the repeat tonight in a few hours, or the transcript will be up tomorrow.
Keith was one of those on the “decisive action good” bandwagon the day after the shooting…but did a marvelous mea culpa the following Monday when the true identity of the “suspected terrorist” began to come out. I see the coverage tonight as in the same vein, questioning authority when authority proves it screwed up.
He may be the only decent “talking head” on television anymore…