"Police knew Brazilian was 'not bomb risk'"

[mr blur]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1553440,00.html

This is disturbing, to say the least.

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"Police officers from the team involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes did not believe he posed 'an immediate threat'.

Senior sources in the Metropolitan Police have told The Observer that members of the surveillance team who followed de Menezes into Stockwell underground station in London felt that he was not about to detonate a bomb, was not armed and was not acting suspiciously. It was only when they were joined by armed officers that his threat was deemed so great that he was shot seven times."
-snip-

[evermind]

1. I think the Observer's was the best of the Sundays' stories

about de Menezes. In particular, the Independent on Sunday one seemed to be confused, and flailing all over the place. The Observer's, linked in the OP, is well worth reading in full, imho.