After 24 hours of justification of their "shoot to kill" policy the police were forced to admit that the person they killed was entirely innocent.The eyewitness accounts of the shooting that they had been attempting to rubbish proved to be true.
People were already describing the shooting as "an execution" while the Daily Express had a headline "shoot the terrorists". Today the Express reported.
"Family and friends of a Brazilian man shot dead by police said there was no reason to believe he was a suspect in the London bombings inquiry.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by officers on Friday morning as he tried to board a Tube train at Stockwell, south London.
Brazilian media reported that Mr Menezes was an electrician who had been living legally and working in England for three years. His body was identified by his cousin, Alex Alves Pereira, who also lives in London.
Mr Pereira said that his cousin had "nothing to hide to anyone".
"If he had a bomb with him they had to stop him before he got a bus or Tube. They had time to stop him and make sure. Instead they let him go to the tube and shoot him from behind," he said."
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