The BBC reports that the “Independent” Police Complaints Commission has finished its inquiry into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician mistaken for a terrorist and murdered by gung-ho Metropolitan police officers, though of course they don’t call it a murder. That it was murder proves the eyewitness report quoted by the BBC:
The BBC has obtained an eyewitness statement, given to the IPCC, which described how anti-terror
officers shot at Mr Menezes 11 times.The statement read: “The shots were evenly spaced, with about three seconds between the shots
for the first few shots.“Then a gap of a little longer. Then the shots were evenly spaced again.”
Mr Menezes, an electrician from Gonzaga in south-eastern Brazil, was hit seven times in the head.
On the six o’clock news, it was said that if prosecutions of the police officers were started, most if not all Metropolitan gun officers would refuse to carry them any longer, once more confirmed that the police think themselves above the law. Here’s hoping the prosecution services will not given in to this common blackmail.
Earlier posts about the murder of Menezes:
- Police murder innocent man
- Police kill innocent man: the system works
- Menezes did not run
- Menezes did not run: confirmed
- Surprise, surpise! No CCTV of Menezes being killed
- Stop Press! Police lied about CCTV footage
- No coverup? Suuuure
- Sliming the Justice 4 Jean campaign
- Suspicious behaviour: if he was Brazilian he would be dead by now