Brazilian's Killing Sparks Outrage at Home (aren't impressed by Blair...)

[sabra]

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http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050725/API/507250862&cachetime=3&template=dateline

Brazilian's Killing Sparks Outrage at Home

Relatives and friends of a Brazilian shot and killed in London after being mistaken for a terrorist say an apology by British Prime Minister Tony Blair didn't go far enough.

Outraged over news that Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder, Gonzaga's mayor called the killing an "assassination."

"It's easy for Blair to apologize, but it doesn't mean very much," said Mayor Julio de Souza. "What happened to English justice and England, a place where police patrol unarmed?"

Some of Menezes' cousins made banners calling on Blair to arrest the police who fired the shots. The Brazilian flag hung at half staff in front of town hall, where several hundred people gathered Monday ahead of a planned protest.

They weren't impressed by Blair's apology.

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[bennywhale]

1. Thats because his apology was barbed with justification for what the

police did. It had a huge BUT in it which made me angry.

Blair doesn't do proper apologies. What he said was

"of course we are sorry for the loss of innocent life...." and then came the big BUT "... if he was a terrorist..."
and then conflating it and merging it with other possible innocent lives etc etc etc WAR ON TERROR WAR ON TERROR OBEY OBEY NOW YOU SEE ME NOW YOU DON'T

i fucking hate blair

[ConfuZed]

2. I noticed the local stations KCAL9/KCBS2 just went with...

"of course we are sorry for the loss of innocent life...." :)