IPCC tries to muzzle bad news.

[Cyberman]

In the year when De'Menezes was unfortunately shot dead in London the whole UK police made I believe 9 (nine) shots from weapons in the whole year.

So when looking at this tragic incident one must bear in mind that shouting "police is doing bloody murder on the streets" should be kept in context of how police acts in other countries, not France or Germany as differences are too minor to notice, but say Russia - where police is armed with assault rifles (!) on normal days.

Weren't 7 of those 9 shots into DeMenezes head ?

[AtW]

Weren't 7 of those 9 shots into DeMenezes head ?

Yes and how often does these things happen in this country?

In Russia in the same year "similar" incident happened in underground - police officer stopped guy who looked foreign (non-white) and then pulled his gun and shot him in the face there and then. Ok, he got arrested and convicted and when relatives asked for compensation... then Russian Home Office said that the moment police officer shot that guy in the face he acted illegally and thus stopped being a police officer, so Home Office is not responsible for his actions, no effing joke!

That said this is not Russia and any police action that caused harm should be investigated which is happening, it is just totally retarded to jump to conclusions on the basis of actions of a few individuals from otherwise very good (in my opinion) police force.

[TykeMerc]

Here's the Mash's take on this sort of thing .......