Death in Stockwell: the unanswered questions (de Menezes) . . .

[OneBlueSky]

He wasn't wearing a heavy jacket. He used his card to get into the station. He didn't vault the barrier. And now police say there are no CCTV pictures to reveal the truth. So why did plainclothes officers shoot young Jean Charles de Menezes seven times in the head, thinking he posed a terror threat? Special report by Tony Thompson, and Tom Phillips in Brazil.

by Tony Thompson and Tom Phillips in Brazil
Sunday August 14, 2005
The Observer

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1548808,00.html

When armed police surrounded the home of Muktar Said-Ibrahim in London's north Kensington earlier this month and ordered him outside, the 27-year-old had only one question: 'How do I know you're not going to shoot me like that guy at Stockwell tube station?' As a suspect in the failed bombings of 21 July, he was perhaps right to be nervous.

A week earlier a Brazilian electrician called Jean Charles de Menezes had been shot and killed by armed police less than 24 hours after the attempted bomb attacks. Everyone was nervous. What would the police do next?

Now an Observer investigation has raised fresh questions about the death of de Menezes, whose killing is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The Observer has discovered that a key element of the investigation will be scrutiny of a delay in calling an armed team to arrest de Menezes, which meant he had already entered the station by the time the officers arrived.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1548808,00.html

[Karenina]

1. Things that make ya go

HMMMMMM...

[blue sky at night]

2. they don't call these guys a.........

neocon death cult for nothing. Do they?? We need a list of all the folks they have killed.

[alarcojon]

3. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4344258

and kicked.

:kick:

[Karenina]

4. I went looking 10 pages back

for your post 20 minutes after I passed it on page 4 in my morning sweep, with the intention of kicking it. IT WAS DISAPPEARED!!! Between that and not being able to view GloriaSmith's pix from Crawford... The icons disappeared one-by-one every time I clicked onto her thread.
:shrug:

[alarcojon]

5. That's okay

No Problem. I'd just like to see this story get one tenth of the attention the original story got, and to see the defenders of the police actions give their take on this story.

[Karenina]

6. I doubt they will engage in discussion.

There is a collective consciousness that comes into play. Some are able to recognize the stench from its first waft through the air. Others ignore as to recognize and identify it is too threatening.