Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Who were the terrorists in this situation?
Not only did they shoot a completely innocent man but they lied on several counts to justify the murder: ie he wasn´t wearing a bulky jacket or carrying a bag, he didn´t jump the ticket barrier, he only ran to catch the train, he wasn´t challenged by the officers,etc.,etc.
Here and here
and from Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror this:
COPS' STOCK REPLY
WE now know that the Brazilian murdered by police in Stockwell wasn't a suspected suicide bomber.
We now know he didn't wear a bulky coat, didn't vault a ticket barrier or run when ordered to stop, and that he was executed after he'd been restrained.
So why am I not surprised that our police appear to have been grossly incompetent, recklessly gung-ho and obscenely dishonest in immediately issuing a pack of lies to cover their own backsides?
Mainly because I was at the Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 when 96 people were killed while under police supervision, and a similar train of events ensued.
While the dead were still being identified, a police story travelled the world that the fans were drunk, had forced down a gate, crushed their own to death, before pick-pocketing and urinating on the corpses.
Lord Justice Taylor eventually proved this was all lies, and he firmly blamed the police for the disaster.
But by then it was too late. The world had swallowed the lies, the police had investigated themselves and cleared every officer of blame.
No wonder Scotland Yard wanted to run its own inquiry into the Stockwell tragedy, too.
British police? The best in the world
Here and here
and from Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror this:
COPS' STOCK REPLY
WE now know that the Brazilian murdered by police in Stockwell wasn't a suspected suicide bomber.
We now know he didn't wear a bulky coat, didn't vault a ticket barrier or run when ordered to stop, and that he was executed after he'd been restrained.
So why am I not surprised that our police appear to have been grossly incompetent, recklessly gung-ho and obscenely dishonest in immediately issuing a pack of lies to cover their own backsides?
Mainly because I was at the Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 when 96 people were killed while under police supervision, and a similar train of events ensued.
While the dead were still being identified, a police story travelled the world that the fans were drunk, had forced down a gate, crushed their own to death, before pick-pocketing and urinating on the corpses.
Lord Justice Taylor eventually proved this was all lies, and he firmly blamed the police for the disaster.
But by then it was too late. The world had swallowed the lies, the police had investigated themselves and cleared every officer of blame.
No wonder Scotland Yard wanted to run its own inquiry into the Stockwell tragedy, too.
British police? The best in the world