Scotsman: Tube shooting: police officers cleared by internal Met inquiry
AN INTERNAL review by the Metropolitan Police has found two officers followed correct procedures when they shot dead the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes at a Tube station, it emerged yesterday.
Posted on January 13th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
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I’m pleased to discover that soaking an innocent person in bullets at close range is correct procedure.
Cus, you know, he might just rise like a zombie after you shot him the first four times.
And indeed that it’s absolutely fine to take “split second decisions” that leave people dead on the basis of evidence that wouldn’t come up to scratch if you wanted to issue a fucking parking ticket. Hoorah, as always, for the Met.
Guidelines for Operation Kratos indicate suspects should be shot in the head. They shot him in the head. So everything’s OK then.
Predicted next step: the real reason for Menezes getting shot was ‘intelligence failures’. Which are a matter of ‘best practice’/systemic and not therefore the fault of anyone.
Not exactly a “knock me down with a feather” moment though, was it?
what about a knock ne down with a tazer/shotgun/truncheon/pepper spray moment?
what about a knock ne down with a tazer/shotgun/truncheon/pepper spray moment?
That would have would have put other passengers at unneccessary risk. Sir Ian himself said so, it must be true!
Speaking as a rabid leftie, but with some professional knowledge of this kind of situation, I’m pleased at this verdict. In operations like this, the trigger man have to do exactly what the voice in the earphone tells them to do. The fuck-up was elsewhere.
The people who need P45s and/or summonses handing to them are the ones who set up the procedures for this kind of operation, and the ones who were running this operation as whole and took the shoot/don’t shoot decision.
Oh, and the guy (I. Blair) who tried to wriggle out of an independent investigation.