Menezes man overcome by emotion

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

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Friday, 24 October 2008 15:56 UK

Menezes man overcome by emotion

One of the police marksmen who shot Jean Charles
de Menezes has broken down while giving evidence
as he offered his condolences to the Brazilian's
family.

Shooting an innocent man was something he would
have "to live with for the rest of my life", he
told an inquest.

But he said he had had "no alternative" other
than to protect the public.

Mr de Menezes, 27, was killed on 22 July 2005
in Stockwell, south London, after police mistook
him for failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman.

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[bemildred]

1. But the public was not in danger.

So how did he "protect the public"? You can't just go around shooting people by "mistake", and then claim you were protecting the public. This guy sounds like a six-year-old kid explaining why he microwaved the cat.