A spokesman for the Justice4Jean campaign said: “It has been highly alarming and extremely insulting for the bereaved Menezes family to hear evidence at the inquest from senior officers in the Metropolitan Police that they did nothing wrong and that a similar tragedy could happen again.
“This continued rebuttal of any wrongdoing on their part only adds to the shameful perception that the Metropolitan Police has no regrets and shows no remorse.” BBC
“In Rio de Janeiro, the police kill three people everyday….
“A remarkable number of police lead double lives,” said Mr. Alston, “While on duty, they fight the drug gangs, but on their days off, they work as foot soldiers of organized crime.”
Clearly, the institutions for holding police accountable are broke
One is a mistake, the other is daily state sanctioned murder. For the slow, the mistake is not in Brazil.
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