The Justice System in the UK is becoming more and more corrupt lately due to infringes on the citizen's rights by the State. The nation is on the verge of becoming a 'police state', because of this.
As far as the Menezes case goes, it was a travesty of justuce.
It seems to me that the police involved in killing him were well 'out of order' and I think that they essentially murdered him - a very unjustified execution.
The police at the time were under pressure to capture the people behind the 7/7 bombings and the particular policeman/policemen who killed the Brazilian may have even been MI5 or Special Branch agents who may have never killed before. Perhaps at least one of them had a hidden unconscious desire to carry out the act of killing/shooting somebody (?). It was probably something that they had in them since their teenage years - "i'd love to blow somebody away", might have been what he was thinking as a young man with all his angst ridden and possibly violent temper.
Maybe Ian Blair (police chief at the time), told them to "make sure you kill one of them today".
I think it was the shooter's attitude and mentality. The public in the underground agreed that they seemed crazed and one of them even terrorised train staff by holding a gun to the head of a train driver!
It was a special day for the police that day - they had a licence to kill and wreak havoc, if they wanted; and they did just that.
Anybody could see though, that Menezes was harmless - everyone except (supposedly) the so-called police. He never even had a rucksack and was not threatening in his demeanor and if anything looked confused.
Many people on the train saw the killing as an execution; a killing that was not necessary.
If anything, they would have needed information from such a suspect, assuming for argument's sake that he was the one. So, killing him should not have been an option. It was obvious probably even to the police that he was harmless and they could hear his non-middle eastern accent when they spoke to him. Yes, one of them had a short chat with him! So, the killing was even more cold-blooded.
Oh ye, the police said that the hard-drive that the underground security reluctantly gave to the them was 'accidentally erased'. This computer hard drive from the underground surveilance system had a lot of important and incriminating information on it.
It seems that these special police agents are well trained in other areas too - like acting!
"Holding back their tears" in court after obviously lieing through their teeth and giving accounts that were contrary to what the public were saying about what they actually saw.
This is all in reference to the news today (02-12-08) about the inquiry case.
It is a travesty what happened in the large court proceedings at the Oval in London, because the judge said that there was no longer any option for the jury to opt for an Unlawful Killing verdict. Now the verdict will have to be just an 'open' one; because it was not a lawful killing (other option).
Such is the power of the Police.
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I wrote this years ago with a fair degree of emotion. But I still stand by most of it.
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