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The information emerging from the trial of the Metropolitan police over the killing of Jean-Charles de Menezes is compelling. In a fine bit of slapstick, “one armed officer put a gun into a colleague’s chest and a Tube driver was chased down a tunnel”, while upstairs in Stockwell ticket hall Special Branch officers entertained passengers with an uproarious custard pie fight involving a pantomime horse.

There has been carping in some quarters about the fact that the only prosecution being brought against the Met for de Menezes’s death is over health and safety, but don’t underestimate the impact of this trial on the force. They will be forced to make sweeping changes—mainly, the introduction of new signage:

Date: 2007-10-02 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiller.livejournal.com
You're one of the people I read on here and think "But why aren't you PAID to do this?"

Except several of the others are.

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