Jean Charles de Menezes, RIP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
False Police Claims
- he was wearing bulky clothing,
- vaulted ticket barriers,
- ran from police
Government claimed he was staying in UK illegally
Excerpt: Two officers fired a total of eleven shots according to the number of empty shell casings found on the floor of the train afterwards.
Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at close range, and died at the scene.
An eyewitness later said that the eleven shots were fired over a thirty second period, at three second intervals.[7]
A separate witness reported hearing five shots, followed at an interval by several more shots.[8]
It later emerged that hollow point bullets had been employed and a senior police source said that de Menezes' body had been "unrecognisable".
