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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
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Police guilty over Menezes murder
'London's Metropolitan police force has been found guilty of endangering the public over the fatal shooting of a man officers mistook for a suicide bomber.
The force broke health and safety laws when officers pursued Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to a Tube station and shot him seven times, a jury found.
It was fined £175,000 with £385,000 costs over the 22 July 2005 shooting.'
(That means, in truth, that the taxpayers who fund the Metropolitan Police and have never shot anyone seven times in the head have been fined)
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