Met suppress files that tell full shooting story
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2070470,00.html
Police hold back dossier that could reveal Sir Ian Blair's
role after Tube killing fiasco
THE Metropolitan police have blocked attempts by
independent investigators to obtain sensitive files
about the role that Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner,
played after the shooting of an innocent Brazilian
man on the London Underground.
The Met has declined to surrender the files. Scotland Yard
bosses insist the papers are “legally privileged” and they are
under no legal obligation to disclose them.
Behind the scenes, the tension between the Met and the
IPCC has been simmering since the day of the shooting.
Part of the IPCC’s own file on the killing of de Menezes,
showing police blunders, was leaked last September.
The file showed how an undercover officer who was
supposed to be watching for a suspected terrorist to
emerge from a house in Tulse Hill, south London, was
relieving himself at the time de Menezes appeared.
The disclosures infuriated Blair and led to renewed calls
for his resignation.
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When you gotta go, you gotta go.
R.I.P.
Jean Charles de Menezes, Rigoberto Alpizar,
and many others.
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