Mistakes led to tube shooting
`The documents and photographs confirm that Jean Charles was not carrying any bags, and was wearing a denim jacket, not a bulky winter coat, as had previously been claimed.
He was behaving normally, and did not vault the barriers, even stopping to pick up a free newspaper.
He started running when we saw a tube at the platform. Police had agreed they would shoot a suspect if he ran.
A document describes CCTV footage, which shows Mr de Menezes entered Stockwell station at a “normal walking pace” and descended slowly on an escalator.’
August 17th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
A cascade of blatant lies from the very top down — from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair to the trigger-happy plain-clothes CO19/SO19 officers — have now been exposed as an horrific catalogue of failures that led to the police-murder and subsequent cover-up of an innocent Brazilian man at Stockwell Underground station.
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