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OT: What happenedGoogle Beta User They went on to bigger and brighter things. Smith = Languishing in the bench of the...
no. they were dressed as father f***ing xmas like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon.
Sorry to be sarcastic. ATM it seems mch detail of this case is beng supressed. However it seem they were plain clothes officers, upholding the law.
this siht is unbelievable-
"There is no shoot to kill policy, there is a shoot to kill to protect policy."
Brazilian foreign minister - Celso Amorim-
"This was an innocent citizen. We are have of course expressed in the past our total solidarity in the combat against terrorism but we understand also that in combating terrorism one should exercise the necessary caution not to take away innocent lives," Mr Amorim,Brazilian foreign minister, said.
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Earlier, Britain's police chief, Sir Ian Blair, apologised to the family of Mr de Menezes, but said there would be no change to the police policy and admitted more people could be shot in the hunt for the London planters and their accomplices.
"This is a tragedy. The Metropolitan police accepts full responsibility for this. To the family I can only express my deep regrets," he told Sky News.
As the police launched an investigation into the shooting, Sir Ian said: "There is nothing gratuitous or cavalier going on. There is no shoot to kill policy, there is a shoot to kill to protect policy."
Sir Ian's apology followed the admission by police that Mr de Menezes was not connected to the suspected dissolution plant attempts on three underground trains and a bus on Thursday.
Meanwhile a third man has been arrested by police investigating the failed July 21 plantings in London. He was held under the Terrorism Act in Tulse Hill, south London, police said tonight.
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), has announced an investigation into the shooting amid fears that the blunder will damage police efforts to catch the four planters who tried to detonate plants in the second attack on London in as many weeks.
Mr Menezes emerged on Friday morning from a house in Tulse Hill, south London, which was under surveillance because of a suspected link to last week's attempted plant attacks. His clothing and behaviour added to the officers' suspicions, police said.
He caught a bus to Stockwell tube in south London where plain-clothes officers told him to stop. The man then ran down an escalator, according to witnesses, apparently trying to get on a train before he was shot five times in the head at close range by an officer with an automatic pistol.
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