So… the facts come out. In accordance with prophecy.
He wasn’t wearing a heavy ‘suicide bomber jacket’.
He wasn’t running away from police.
He didn’t vault the ticket barrier.
He wasn’t warned before getting shot.
He was restrained but got shot anyway.
And the policeman who ID’d him was pissing at the time.
Practically every part of the police’s justification for shooting dead an innocent Brazilian has now been proven to be just a cover up. Where the hell are we living… Los Angeles? To have made a mistake is bad, but perhaps understandable. To have lied, repeatedly, to cover it up is unforgivable. And my already-low opinion of the police just hit rock bottom.
The institution of the Police is honourable. All too often, the actual people doing the job are not. It’s a power-crazed cabal of sneering, bigoted thugs far more interested in their own promotion prospects than any obligation to society.
As elsewhere in New Labour’s Britain, laws and justifications are written for the convenience of the State rather than the protection of the people.
Britain continues to sleepwalk into a police state, and far too few give a damn.
Posted on August 16, 2005
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