Almost everything they said was a lie. posted by Richard Seymour

I've just found this via Shot By Both Sides :

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is studying CCTV footage that caught de Menezes’s last moments. What is already clear is that the initial accounts of his death on July 22 were wrong.

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He was not wearing what witnesses called a “black bomber jacket”, but a denim jacket. It was about 17C and his clothing would not have been out of the ordinary.

He did not vault a ticket barrier, as claimed. He used a travelcard to pass through the station in the normal way. His family believes that he may have started to run simply because he heard the train pulling in — something Londoners do every day. Indeed, a train was at the platform when he got there.

So, let me get this straight. Several witnesses say he received no warning - about the one thing there is any unanimity among the witnesses about. He did not jump the ticket gates. He was not wearing a big bulky coat, nor was there anything about his person that could be construed as a 'bomb belt'.

The story also notes, as many people here suspected, that when the shooting first happened "a senior police source told reporters, off the record, that they had killed one of the would-be suicide bombers who was on the run after the failed July 21 bombings". In other words, from the very beginning there has been a farrago of lies, from the assertion that a bomber had been shot when all they knew about him was that he emerged from a block of flats they were watching, through the claims that he had been followed from Stockwell and not Tulse Hill, to the entire tale about how he tried to buy a tube ticket, was challenged, and ended up vaulting over the ticket gates and dashing down the stairs in a big bulky 'bomber jacket'. (Anyone who has passed through a tube ticket gate knows that it would take extraordinary athleticism to vault over them, and you would need a good run up, which the distance from the ticket window to the gates doesn't provide in Stockwell Station.)

Incidentally, Justin Horton has written an excellent letter to the Evening Standard about their disgraceful billboard posters. I doubt they'll reply, but it sums up something rather important about that fetid rag that 'chirpy' fat blokes feel compelled to yell about from their little stalls outside the tube stations.