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Old Jul 28, 2005, 11:24 pm   #96 (permalink) (top)
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Were you present, Rick? Did you count the number of discharges? No? Then how do you know? And how do you know on what basis they fired?
So are you suggesting that we can only believe what we see with our own eyes? We can no views on any topic to which we were not witnesses? Yah, right. Sure.

The initial report was that the police only shot de Menezes five times in the head. The more recent reports say he was shot eight times in the head and once in the shoulder.

Of course, the initial reports also claimed that de Menezes was definately tied to the Tube bombings. Much of the initial reporting has been wildly inaccurate, or so it seems based on press reports. Fortunately the Brazilian government involvement may marginally improve the chances of the truth eventually coming out.

I would think that any Londoner should feel threatened by trigger happy plain clothes police who can legally imitate 007's "license to kill" with point blank shots to the head, apparently based on fashion and ethnicity.


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