{"id":804,"date":"2006-01-18T05:34:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T10:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=804"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:34:37","slug":"inquiry-in-the-menezes-murder-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2006\/01\/18\/inquiry-in-the-menezes-murder-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry in the Menezes murder is finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Menezes<\/p>\n

\nThe BBC reports<\/a> 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:\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe BBC has obtained an eyewitness statement, given to the IPCC, which described how anti-terror
\nofficers shot at Mr Menezes 11 times.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe statement read: “The shots were evenly spaced, with about three seconds between the shots
\nfor the first few shots.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Then a gap of a little longer. Then the shots were evenly spaced again.”\n<\/p>\n

Mr Menezes, an electrician from Gonzaga in south-eastern Brazil, was hit seven times in the head.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nOn 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.\n<\/p>\n

\nEarlier posts about the murder of Menezes:\n<\/p>\n