'No cameras running' when Charles de Menezes was executed by London police
icsouthlondon: CCTV cameras weren't running when cops gunned down an innocent man on the Tube, it is claimed.
Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead inside Stockwell Tube station when armed officers mistook him for a suicide bomber. Post-mortem tests showed the 27-year-old electrician had been blasted eight times.
According to a national newspaper [ sunday mirror], in-station security cameras may not have been working.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the shooting.
If the CCTV was not working, it will have to rely on witnesses.
Mr de Menezes was shot on the morning of Friday, July 22 - the day after four men allegedly tried to detonate rucksacks stuffed with explosives on our transport system. Officers had followed Mr de Menezes from an address in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill.
It has been widely reported he got off at Stockwell and fled into the station when challenged by police.
His shooting has prompted fears there is a "shoot-to-kill" policy only for certain ethnic profiles.
A Met spokesman referred the CCTV issue to the IPCC, but a spokeswoman for the commission said she was unable to comment.
A TfL spokesman said: "I believe police would have asked for footage from Stockwell of that morning."
db: see Death in Stockwell: the unanswered questions
Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead inside Stockwell Tube station when armed officers mistook him for a suicide bomber. Post-mortem tests showed the 27-year-old electrician had been blasted eight times.
According to a national newspaper [ sunday mirror], in-station security cameras may not have been working.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the shooting.
If the CCTV was not working, it will have to rely on witnesses.
Mr de Menezes was shot on the morning of Friday, July 22 - the day after four men allegedly tried to detonate rucksacks stuffed with explosives on our transport system. Officers had followed Mr de Menezes from an address in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill.
It has been widely reported he got off at Stockwell and fled into the station when challenged by police.
His shooting has prompted fears there is a "shoot-to-kill" policy only for certain ethnic profiles.
A Met spokesman referred the CCTV issue to the IPCC, but a spokeswoman for the commission said she was unable to comment.
A TfL spokesman said: "I believe police would have asked for footage from Stockwell of that morning."
db: see Death in Stockwell: the unanswered questions
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