Comments on: Jean Charles de Menezes

By: lee anthony broadhurst

lee anthony broadhurst — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:18:58 +0000

my personal opinion and experience, of the police force i believe and iÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m sure many people would agree is that the armed police and the goverment believe they have the power to shoot and kill innocent citizens on our streets and get away with it.
my main point is THAT THEY ARE TRIGGER HAPPY MURDERERS WHICH MAKES THEM JUST AS BAD AS THE TERRORISTS OR IF NOT WORST .
which means no one is safe on our streets even from the police.
the officers who shot and killed jean charles de menezes at point blank range
(7 TIMES) should be put on trial for such a barbaric murder.

By: Bock

Bock — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:50:06 +0000

The debate about the other six is that his family got him back without a head.

By: Ceolman

Ceolman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:44:01 +0000

and if he was dead after one, what is the debate over the other six. He was dead by then. that said however I have great sympathy for his family, its just sad it happened. Wrong place , wrong time, it cold be you or me but my view is I will take the risk rather than sit next to an Al Queda bomber.

By: Ceolman

Ceolman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:39:55 +0000

To be honest, at that time, the police were running all over london, chasing every thing that moved. People were terrified, and lots had died. Things moved fast, but lets give some thought to the burden on them. It only needs a minor error down the chain for a later decision to be magnified hugely. OK the firearms team was late, could that be something as simple as his wife was taken ill and he was late in, they are as human just as much as us. I dont agree everything went swimmingly but this is not a level playing field. As for the seven bullets, If I thought the guy I was shooting had a bomb and I was kneeling on his chest, i would not stop at one. I am not a crazy person, but unless you have topped someone before ( I have not ) it is hard to say how many you would fire. and forget "best trained". That bloke would have been shitting himself he was about to meet his maker. How many of us would put ourselves in the same position.

By: Bock

Bock — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:36:19 +0000

That would rule out most of the English then, wouldn't it? And Cayman Islanders like yourself.

By: Cap'n Kratos

Cap'n Kratos — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:13:52 +0000

Whinging bloody latinos. If you can't take a joke stay out of Britain.

By: Bock

Bock — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:20:51 +0000

Wrong.

You're wrong about every single detail. How is it possible that you could manage to get so much wrong?

He wasn't running. He was sitting down in a seat on the train.

He didn't know anyone was following him.

The police grabbed him where he sat, held him down and shot him

You must have missed the trial report, did you?

Actually, no, I take that back. You must be deliberately distorting the facts. Nobody could be that disconnected from reality.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:23:40 +0000

if i had armed police chassing me and i hadnt done nothing wrong i wouldnt have run in the first place, if he had stopped they wouldnt have shot him

By: Bock

Bock — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:24:52 +0000

Mr Director: Yeah. Keep Londoners safe by shooting the wrong man. A lot.

Conan: I didn't notice the Met getting lucky with a suicide bomber, though.

'Ang abaht lads. I've got an idea. Let's shoot a few foreign Sarf American geezers, awright? That's sure to make us lucky. Awright, my son?

Medbh: Not a lot. I'd say your guess is safe.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:43:50 +0000

I'm guessing he didn't have much of a head left when they were done with him.