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Jean Charles de Menezes was 27 when he was murdered by police officers at Stockwell Station in London, a few weeks after the July 7th attacks in 2005. He was w
by rvense 5y ago
Jean Charles de Menezes was 27 when he was murdered by police officers at Stockwell Station in London, a few weeks after the July 7th attacks in 2005.
He was wearing a suspiciously big jacket when he left his flat. He lived near someone who was being surveilled in relation to the attacks, and word went over the radios that a guy was coming - the guy is coming - he's going into the tube - look at the jacket, he must be wearing a bomb belt... he was rushed by cops, pinned to the ground(!) and shot in the head. That was that for Jean Charles. Another innocent fallen on the home front of the terror wars.
There was a dragged out, unsatisfactory investigation, and some grumbling, unconvincing placement of blame, no punishments and no change to procedures. All these years after it still makes me mad as hell.
- mjw1007 5y agoHe was not wearing a suspiciously big jacket. That was a lie propagated by the police, which evidently many people still believe. See eg https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tube-shooting-who-really-said-what-and-who-was-to-blame-307349.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tube-shooting-wh...
- rvense 5y agoI see. Thank you for that. I'm not English but I was there at the time and I remember most of these stories - that he jumped the barrier and looked Asian and all that, all crap. I actually also heard that the police man shouted "yippie ki-yay, motherfucker" before firing, maybe I'll start repeating that one instead.
- pydry 5y agoThe barrier/jacket lies quietly came out about a week or two after, I think. I remember thinking at the time that whomever was in charge and responsible for the attempted coverup and the lies would have to be fired. Still cant quite believe they'd be fully in charge and lecturing us about how to catch a terrorist a decade later.