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Published Date: 14 October 2008

Hope Street,
Hebden Bridge

How chilling the words of Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick: "If you are asking me did we do anything wrong or unreasonable, then I don't think we did".

Could we reasonably ask what Jean Charles de Menezes was doing wrong?

Commissioner Dick helpfully tells us that de Menezes had the temerity to "live in the same block" as a suspect, "look very like" a suspect, and the clincher, to be seen "getting on and off the bus".

If it wasn't so tragic it would put you in mind of the Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch where Rowan Atkinson berates Griff Rhys Jones for arresting a man for "loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing", "coughing without due care and attention", and "smelling of foreign food".

I think that thereby hangs the tale. Jean Charles looked foreign, and as we all know "all foreigners look the same". That he was innocent is neither here nor there.

Could not Commander Dick simply have the decency to acknowledge her force's mistakes and promise to rectify the wrongs?

Mind you, to paraphrase Barack Obama: "If they don't know it's broke, how can they fix it?"

(Coun) Nader Fekri
(Lib Dem, Calder)

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Last Updated: 14 October 2008 8:40 AM
Source: Evening Courier
Location: Halifax

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PrincessFiona,

14/10/2008 09:48:17

ok lets start with your errors Nader!
where shall we start?

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Elliesdad,

14/10/2008 15:21:40

Fiona - if faced with a situation where you were unsure as to whether or not innocent people would be blown to bits - and only had a split second in which to act, what decision would YOU have made? Ask the guy nicely if he was a terrorist?

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PrincessFiona,

14/10/2008 20:54:14

i would have stopped him breathing exactly what the police did.

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15/10/2008 15:57:11

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Peter Avinou,

17/10/2008 06:39:25

It still remains a question why it took so many bullets to kill a man helpless on the floor. In my Army days, it took but one shot to the head to kill a man, or any creature!
This man was on the floor, restrained and could have been handcuffed - but he was executed, without recourse to any plea or explanation at all!
This was murder; by persons employed for public defence, intent on doing the deed they carried out.
They should be tried for unlawful killing.
Their actions were not in accordance with our ways at all. A dangerous precedent has been set.

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