Mistaken Identity
Wed, 2007-10-03 15:48
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Mistaken Identity
This is a composite image submitted by police defence in the current prosecution over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44152000/jpg/_44152268_composite20...
Apparently it shows how identification was 'difficult'.
Does anyone else agree that the only thing they have in common is short dark hair? I mean, FFS they are clearly not even the same ethnic group! The man on the left is clearly Asian and the man on the right is clearly not - I'd peg him as Hispanic or possibly Mediterranean.
Anyway the picture to me only further illustrates their incompetence!
j
maddan
Well they're both young men I suppose, but it's hard to see what they think they're proving.
The defence case in this seems impossible.
Either they genuinely thought he was a suicide bomber - in which case they put the public in danger allowing him on a bus and tube; or they didn't think he was a suicide bomber - in which case they shouldn't have shot him.
maddan
the plot thickens
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/met_menezes_pic_claim/
poetjude
Yes, I read this and saw the 'correct' version of the composite.
This whole things shocks and saddens me more than the original London bombings the previous week. The tragedy seems more heightened because I don't measure loss in terms of number of lives but context. If innocent citizens are not safe from the people who are supposed to protect them what's left? The outcome of this trial may be an embarrassment and costly to an institution who made errors but an institution is comprised of people and those people responsible should face criminal charges for manslaughter.
jude
"Cacoethes scribendi"
http://www.judesworld.net
styx
Collateral damage anyone? What's that old adage about the first casualty of war being the truth. Coleridge summed it up with 'Man's inhumanity to man rest awhile.' It was no more tragic then the people blown to smithereens days before and no less tragic. I think if you introduce manslaughter charges then I think that there would be wholescale officers who refuse to carry guns. Which might not be a bad thing. Anyway it's a bleeding cockup all round.
styx
Collateral damage anyone? What's that old adage about the first casualty of war being the truth. Coleridge summed it up with 'Man's inhumanity to man rest awhile.' It was no more tragic then the people blown to smithereens days before and no less tragic. I think if you introduce manslaughter charges then I think that there would be wholescale officers who refuse to carry guns. Which might not be a bad thing. Anyway it's a bleeding cockup all round.
styx
Cockup anyone?