London Police `Deeply Regret' Killing Brazilian Man

July 24 (Bloomberg) -- London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said his force ``deeply regret'' the death of a 27-year-old Brazilian man shot by officers in the search for terrorists behind four attempted bombings July 21.

Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician living in the British capital, was shot dead at Stockwell subway station in south London on July 22, after officers pursued him from an apartment building under police surveillance. Police are seeking four male suspects in the attempted attacks on three subway trains and a bus.

``To the family I can only express our deepest regrets,'' Blair said today in an interview on Sky News. ``We have terrorists using suicide as a weapon on the streets of London and below the streets of London. What we have to recognize is that people are taking incredibly difficult, fast-timed decisions in life-threatening situations.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...9lSwE&refer=uk

It was bound to happen sooner or later. People on edge, hightened alerts......
We definately have to take steps to curb these type of random attacks but unfortunately we have situations like these. Do nothing and hundreds die, do something and an innocent life is lost.

What a wonderful world we live in! :eek:

I have a feeling it's gonna happen a lot in the next few years.

Plain Clothed officers chaised the man then when he fell over they stood on his back and shot him 4 times in his head,

You would run too if you had 5 men chasing you even more if maybe you didnt understand english?

More innocents could be shot: UK police


The Age | July 25 2005

British police say more members of the public could be shot in error as the hunt escalated for four men who tried to blow up London's transport system last week.

The warning comes after police, who are engaged in one of the biggest manhunts in British history, mistakenly shot dead a Brazilian man on Friday, thinking he was a suicide bomber.

Millions of London commuters faced a tense Underground train trip to work fearing that the four would-be suicide bombers were still on the loose despite the biggest police investigation in British history.

Police sent more armed officers onto London's streets.

Britain's most senior policeman, Ian Blair, defended the shoot-to-kill policy for dealing with suspected suicide bombers and said police were in a race against time to find those behind last Thursday's attempted bombings of three underground trains and a bus, the second attack on the capital in two weeks.

"This is a terrifying set of circumstances for individuals to make decisions," Blair told Sky News television. "Somebody else could be shot."



Electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot five times in the head after being chased on to an underground train by undercover police, witnesses said. The shooting has sparked intense debate about the shoot-to-kill policy in a country which takes pride in having a largely unarmed police force. Only 10 per cent of police in London routinely carry weapons.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, on a trip to London, demanded a "full investigation" into the killing.

On July 7 three trains and a bus in London killed 56 people - including the four suspected suicide bombers - and wounded 700.

Since then, Britain's newspapers and television news broadcasts have been filled with images of heavily armed police on London's streets.

Raids by police across the capital and scores of security alerts have heightened the already tense atmosphere in the city. Police arrested a third man under anti-terrorism laws on Saturday.

Police chief Blair has said that while police have no proof of a link between the July 7 bombings and last Thursday's attacks, there is obviously a similar pattern.

In both instances three underground trains and a bus were targeted, although in the latest attack the homemade bombs failed to detonate, possibly because the material had degraded.

Interior Minister Charles Clarke also defended the shoot-to-kill policy, under which police marksmen are being told to aim for the head rather than the chest to kill a suspected bomber.

"A mistake was clearly made which will be regretted forever," he told the BBC. "But I don't think that means that they are wrong to have a policy (to deal) with these appalling circumstances."

Police said Menezes had been followed from a block of flats in south London which had been under surveillance since the July 21 attacks and was shot after running away from armed police who had ordered him to stop.

The Brazilian government demanded a full inquiry into the death, while Brazilians staged a vigil in London.

British newspapers printed his photograph on their front pages with headlines such as "Another terror victim" and "Death of an Innocent".

Scotland Yard said at the weekend they might have found a fifth device abandoned close to the British Broadcasting Corporation's studios in west London, raising the spectre of a possible fifth bomber on the run.

A new poll suggested Britons believed their country's support for the Iraq war contributed to the London bombings, a suggestion Prime Minister Tony Blair has strongly denied.

Nearly a quarter of those polled for the Daily Mirror newspaper said Iraq was the main cause for the bombings, with 62 per cent saying it was a contributory factor.

yeh that's right, send in more officers with the authority to shoot-to-kill. yeh, that'll make everyone safer.

Fuck the police!

How many more people must die before we abolish these horrible parasites on society?

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Fuck the police!

How many more people must die before we abolish these horrible parasites on society?

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whenever bush says so. didn't you get the downing street memo?

whatever happened to the downing steet memo?lol.

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whatever happened to the downing steet memo?lol.

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you'll see at the mid-term elections.

ive been trying to tell you that.my guess,i think the republicans will pick up about 3 seats give or take.the dems will be spending pocket change so that is not good for them.you can blame dean for that.even Terry did better.

Just you guys remember not to wear any padded jackets next time you visit here. Our police might have to blow you away!

I remember when someone asked "will the UK tear itself apart with fear". I'm gonna have to go back on what I said and say probably, yeah!

how are things from a civilian point of view bb?

I havn't really spoken to a lot of people about it, but personally i'm ashamed at how poorly our seems to be handling this whole terrorism situation.

Public transport runs the same as it did before the 7th, zero safety measures taken. The second (luckily unsuccesful) bombing that happened could have killed a whole lot more people, and it would have been Blair's fault for not doing anything. It's like we're just shrugging it off or something. "Hey, no problem, England will never be broken", sure but physically we can STILL BE BLOWN TO SHIT GENIUSES! :mad:

It's upsetting that the Brazilian guy was killed. It just shows the whole world we are out of our depth already after two attacks. How can you be ordered to shoot to kill someone with NO connection whatsoever to the terrorists? It wasn't an accident, the "experts" thought he was a threat and an innocent life is lost. How many more are to come in this blind panic? Are we allowed to walk the street anymore without fear of getting capped over and over by some police squad that don't know what they're doing? At least you guys could hold it together (kinda).

Shame. :(

They've got to stop letting them into Britain.

Islam's Immigrant Invasion of Europe
By Serge Trifkovic
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 6, 2003

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles...le.asp?ID=5239

From the above website:

Exactly the same problem is present in each and every Western country that has carelessly opened the floodgates to mass immigration from the Muslim world. An early sign of what was about to hit England came almost 20 years ago in a document published by the Islamic Foundation in the industrial city of Leicester, 100 miles north of London. According to this official publication, the Islamic Movement is,
â??an organized struggle to change the existing society into an Islamic society based on the Koran and the Sunna and make Islam, which is a code for entire life, supreme and dominant, especially in the socio-political spheresâ?¦ the ultimate objective of the Islamic movement shall not be realized unless the struggle is made by locals. For it is only they who have the power to change the society into an Islamic society.â?�