This was bad enough when we could still pretend the victim was a dangerous terrorist suspect:
“I saw an Asian guy. He ran on to the train, he was hotly pursued by three plain clothes officers, one of them was wielding a black handgun.
“He half tripped… they pushed him to the floor and basically unloaded five shots into him,” he told BBC News 24.
“As [the suspect] got onto the train I looked at his face, he looked sort of left and right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, a cornered fox.
“He looked absolutely petrified and then he sort of tripped, but they were hotly pursuing him, [they] couldn’t have been any more than two or three feet behind him at this time and he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor and the policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand.
“He held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him.
But then it turned out this was just an innocent Brazilian electrician:
A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday’s London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the incidents.
The man, who died at Stockwell Tube on Friday, has been named by police as Jean Charles de Menezes, 27.
Cue many mealy mouthed apologies and talk about “tragedies”, as if this was some kind of unavoidable natural disaster, rather than the murder it was. The BBC on Radio 4 was particularly offensive, with its handwringing about the poor police men who had to take these hard decisions –murder is hard, as the Einsatzgruppen could tell you as well. Oh, and more innocent people might be killed, but you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, so says police commissioner Ian Blair.
All of which is eagerly lapped up by the media establishment and the pro-war “left”, who swallow everything held in front of them. But blaming the victim is so much easier than resisting the police state now created in Britain. All in the name of fighting terrorism –but what about state terrorism?