Menezes - more Keystone Cop moments

[detective-boy]

Wait for it...The tec'll be along to spin the Met's side of events, any time soon.

I'm not "spinning" the Met's side of the story at all. I'm trying to stick to the facts as established by the fucking IPCC enquiry. It's all here:

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/ipcc_stockwell_2.pdf

Why don't you read it?

 

[Urbanblues]

I'm not "spinning" the Met's side of the story at all. I'm trying to stick to the facts as established by the fucking IPCC enquiry. It's all here:

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/ipcc_stockwell_2.pdf

Why don't you read it?

As with Great Britain, the Independent Police Complaints Commission is a misnomer.

 

[TAE]

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/ipcc_stockwell_2.pdf

Perhaps you could point out where it says that the police corrected the false reports.

20.2 Conclusions
[...]
By 23:25hrs 23 July 2005 the MPS were aware that Mr de Menezes had not
jumped the ticket barrier at Stockwell Underground Station but, as they had
not released this information, they were not responsible for correcting it. The
information originated from a witness who gave a television interview not
under the control of the MPS. It is not known if the MPS intended to correct
this information but in any event they would have been prevented from
doing so after 23:25hrs following the agreement with the IPCC that they
would not make any further media releases.

[...]

By the way, regarding the media reports:

16.5.2
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, civilian witnesses gave their
account of what had happened to the media. These accounts mistakenly
described Mr de Menezes as wearing un-seasonal clothing, running away
from the police, jumping the ticket barrier and acting suspiciously in other
ways. It is apparent that some of the witnesses confused police officers with
Mr de Menezes. These accounts were inaccurate, but the IPCC accepts they
resulted from genuine mistakes in a very stressful situation. Mr de Menezes
did nothing and wore nothing that could be considered suspicious. These
mistaken civilian accounts that were given to and broadcast by the media
became accepted and in some cases repeated, by the MPS.

 

[8ball]

How fuckin' low can they go? Dirty fuckin' lying murdering bastards!

I'm quite amazed by the amount of rope the police have been given in this case but at least they're doing their best to hang themselves with it.