Report condemns 'confusion' of De Menezes operation

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Source: Guardian (UK)

The police operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes was marred by confusion, misunderstanding and insufficient resources, a major report published today has concluded.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission report criticised the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, for delaying the investigation into the shooting of the innocent Brazilian at Stockwell underground station, in south London, on July 22 2005.

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She should have made it explicitly clear that, when she ordered De Menezes to be "stopped", she did not intend him to be shot and had not given an order to invoke Operation Kratos, the police anti-terrorist procedure that clears armed officers to open fire even when they have not seen a weapon.



Read more: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2207416,00.html

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The whitewash of this continues. "Operation Kratos" is simply summary excecution and is an abomination to a free society.