24/07/2005

seriously boring sunday....spent the day doing house sprint cleaning..cooking..sleeping...

9pm - rakin, zulia, feroz, aza, shikin, camme, bynie, stef, salwa, myself..walked to dillons - buy groceries - got back..chit chatting...4.30am..went sleep..(after the fajr prayer)..

i just got to know a brizillian was shot dead in london after being suspected with 'suspicious act'..damn..5 shots..and the guy was just on his way to so some electrician job in the other building...when are this going to stop...paranoid people just keep messin this planet earth..FUCK!!!!

- source from msn -

Menezes shot eight times

Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for Friday's police killing of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, but defended the actions of police.
"We are all desperately sorry for the death of an innocent person and I understand entirely the feelings of the young man's family, but we also have to understand the police are doing their job in very, very difficult circumstances," he said.
"Had the circumstances been different and, for example, this had turned out to be a terrorist, and they had failed to take that action, they would have been criticized the other way."
An inquiry found Monday that officers shot Menezes in the head eight times -- not five, as some witnesses had suggested.
Menezes was killed at Stockwell subway station by police officers who mistook him for a suicide bomber.
His family is threatening to take legal action.
"They have to pay for that in many ways, because if they do not, they are going to kill many people," his cousin, Alex Pereira, told the BBC.
In Brazil, Menezes' family was devastated. "It's the suffering of life. I never imaging such a thing," his mother said in Portuguese.
As to official apologies, she said: "I lost my son. Nothing can pay for that."
It's still unclear why Menezes ran from police. A report on the BBC website suggests Menezes was in Britain with an out-of-date visa -- a report his relatives deny.
Plainclothes officers followed Menezes to Stockwell station from his apartment in the neighbourhood of Tulse Hill. That apartment was in a building which had been under surveillance.
According to witness accounts, Menezes entered the station dressed in a padded coat and ignored a police demand to halt. Police chased him through the station, wrestled him to the floor of a train carriage and shot him to death.
Speaking on Britain's Sky News television Sunday, Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair warned that "somebody else could be shot."
"But everything is done to make it right," he said. "This is a terrifying set of circumstances for individuals to make decisions."
Daud Abdullah of the Muslim Council of Britain said Britain's shoot-to-kill policy, and the death of Menezes, could alienate the Muslim community.
"The community is looking inwards and fearful that it will happen again and many more innocents will pay with their lives because of this policy," Abdullah told CTV.

With a report from CTV's Tom Kennedy

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