Literally!
Read these first:
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And the cover-up continues in the N.Y. Times:
"Carelessness by London Police Cited in ’05 Killing" by JULIA WERDIGIER
LONDON, Nov. 1 — London’s police force on Thursday was found guilty of putting the public at risk during a counterterrorism operation in 2005 that led to the killing of an innocent Brazilian electrician on a subway train.
The Metropolitan Police force was fined $364,000 and $800,000 in legal costs for breaching health and safety laws as police officers pursued and killed the man, Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, who they thought was a suspect in a failed suicide bombing attempt.
It is the first time that health and safety legislation has been applied in connection with a counterterrorist police operation.
The verdict angered some human rights groups and opposition politicians and renewed calls for the resignation of Sir Ian Blair, London’s police commissioner.
On July 22, 2005, in an operation prosecutors called chaotic, the police officers wrongly identified Mr. de Menezes as one of four men who had tried to detonate bombs on London’s mass transit system a day earlier. Two weeks before that attempt, four bombers killed themselves and 52 others on the transit system.
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The officers followed Mr. de Menezes into a subway train in Stockwell, in south London, and shot him seven times in the head.
The police made a “shocking and catastrophic error” and endangered the public, prosecutors told the jury on Thursday at Central Criminal Court, by allowing someone they suspected to be a suicide bomber to board the train and then by shooting him.
Ronald Thwaites, a lawyer for the police force, said a health and safety prosecution was a sign that there was not enough evidence to charge any individuals with murder or manslaughter.
The police acknowledged that the operation had gone wrong but denied breaking any laws.
Mr. de Menezes’ family sought the resignations of officers in charge of the operation, but the jury cleared individual officers and ruled that the organization as a whole was responsible.
Sir Ian said he would stay on because no evidence of “systemic failure” had been uncovered."
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