Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes — seething with anger
The death of Jean Charles de Menezes at the hands of a Met Police firearms squad on July 22, 2005, became so shrouded in fallacy, in half-truths, you'd be forgiven for not remembering it quite right. You might recall, for example, that this innocent young Brazilian man, on his way to work one ordinary weekday morning, leapt over a Tube station's barriers while being pursued by police. He categorically did not (turns out it was the cops who vaulted the barriers).
He was never challenged by officers when they stormed the Tube carriage, nor 'refused to obey' as the Met chief Ian Blair would tell the press later that day. The guns that killed him were right up against his head, fired over and over.
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