Does getting shot in the head 7x contravine health & safety?

[KentPhilip]

Maybe Sir Ian Blair has got more in common with the other Blair than it was previously thought.

Well you never see them together do you?

Blair. A fat Tony Blair.

[wendigo100]

Would you have stopped and searched him if you believed he was a jihadi bent on receiving his packet of raisins in valhaala?

Mailman

As I understand it, the information initially given out by the police, that the suspect was wearing a bulky coat which could possibly have concealed a bomb, was a lie.

In which case why did they not stop and search the suspect? The Israelis seem to manage it a hundred times a day without killing suspects.

Secondly, why was no-one in the police later censured for giving false evidence? Another lie - the police had also initially said that they challenged the suspect, who then ran away and vaulted the barriers to get into the underground station. They confiscated CCTV tapes from the underground station, including those on the platform where the shooting took place, but they forgot one - the one which showed De Menezes walking normally through the barriers. And yet another lie - they doctored photographs of De Menezes and the true terror suspect to make them look more similar in court.

Making mistakes in a difficult situation is bad enough. Lying and treating the rest of us like idiots is another. Why don't we:

1. Discipline and retraining for whoever was responsible for the 19 mistakes that the courts proved they made
2. Sack whoever was responsible for the lies afterwards
3. Sack whoever decided to plead not guilty to all 19 charges, which showed arrogance and a complete lack of judgement

Naturally, our government has just expressed full confidence in the Met police chief...

[sasguru]

As I understand it, the information initially given out by the police, that the suspect was wearing a bulky coat which could possibly have concealed a bomb, was a lie.

In which case why did they not stop and search the suspect? The Israelis seem to manage it a hundred times a day without killing suspects.

Secondly, why was no-one in the police later censured for giving false evidence? Another lie - the police had also initially said that they challenged the suspect, who then ran away and vaulted the barriers to get into the underground station. They confiscated CCTV tapes from the underground station, including those on the platform where the shooting took place, but they forgot one - the one which showed De Menezes walking normally through the barriers. And yet another lie - they doctored photographs of De Menezes and the true terror suspect to make them look more similar in court.

Making mistakes in a difficult situation is bad enough. Lying and treating the rest of us like idiots is another. Why don't we:

1. Discipline and retraining for whoever was responsible for the 19 mistakes that the courts proved they made
2. Sack whoever was responsible for the lies afterwards
3. Sack whoever decided to plead not guilty to all 19 charges, which showed arrogance and a complete lack of judgement

Naturally, our government has just expressed full confidence in the Met police chief...

Gets more like a South American banana republic every day.

[TheFaQQer]

Naturally, our government has just expressed full confidence in the Met police chief...

Part of the expression of confidence that I heard this week was that if there hadn't been any London bombs, then Menezes wouldn't have been shot.

Of course, if there hadn't been any armed police messing it up that day, he wouldn't have been shot either.

But let's try and spin the blame onto the Jihadis instead...