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Should Police Shoot
to Kill Policy be Reviewed?
No change over shoot-to-kill policy
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, a Brazilian electrician on his way to work, was
shot dead by police as he tried to get on a train at Stockwell Tube station
on Friday.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian also apologised to Mr de Menezes'
family, but defended his officers' actions.
He said: "It's a deeply regretful action. But we have to consider what would
have happened if these officers had not shot, and that man had been a
suicide bomber, and had got on the Tube, and the doors closed with the
officers having taken the wrong decision.
"That would have been absolutely dreadful. The most important thing I can do
is to offer our regrets, but then we have to move on in the biggest
operation the Metropolitan Police has ever undertaken."
He refused to curtail the controversial shoot-to-kill policy in which
firearms officers are instructed to shoot suicide bomb suspects in the head,
and he admitted more people may die as a result. |
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