exeterboro
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There was no backpack,the IPCC made a lot of public claims in the immediate aftermath, including him jumping the barriers, which wasnt him it was most likely the following " death squad", the CCTV footage of him on the bus, him at the underground station, and on the tube was ' faulty' and could not be retrieved The independent witnesses evidence was at odds with claims made by the official version but the CCTV coverage was not available to support either side. The only consolation for police apologists that it was most likely not the police special firearms unit or a section within Special Branch but a special unit taken from special ops to take out any believed bombers, he was thrown to the ground of the tube and had 5 bullets to the back of the head.Even with Jean Charles de Menezes, the most egregious example of a police shooting in the UK that I can think of. When you put that in context and read about how that situation panned out - failed Tube bombing the day before, armed police on maximum high alert on public transport, mistaken identification of a guy with backpack as one of the suspects, runs from police and jumps ticket gate running towards packed train - you start to understand how the calculations they made were actually reasonable. Incredibly tragic in this case, because he truly was innocent of everything, but reasonable.
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