At the de Menezes trial in London we now hear that he (de Menezes) had traces of cocaine in his urine! Also according to a Dr Kenneth Shorrock, de Menezes had traces of a breakdown product associated with cocaine in his bloodstream.
So is there now an effort that despite the fact that the Met managed to shoot the wrong person, someone is trying to blacken his name as if to provide some sort of last minute excuse! Please!!
It doesn’t matter if he had Tetley bitter running through his veins; the Met shot the wrong person!
That said, the fault does not lay with the individual officers who pulled the triggers – though I am sure that they very much regret the incident, it lays with the command and control mechanism in use that day.
If we (the public) want to have volunteers – that’s what the police are – to rush in our behalf, in without any regard for their own personal safety to protect us from suicide bombers, then they deserve to have the highest command and control systems in place to protect them and in the case of potential errors like this, prevent them from happening ever again.
Senior management in the police are to blame and nobody else.
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