We're quite comfortable the policy is right but these are difficult times. They (the rules) have to be that. There's no point in shooting at someone's chest because that's where a bomb is likely to be. There's no point in shooting anywhere else if they fall down and detonate it. This is drawn from experience from other countries. The only way to deal with it is to shoot the head. Somebody else could be shot. But everything is done to make it right."Excuse me, Sir Ian, but your law-enforcing officers shot an innocent man, FIVE bloordy times in the head, for-god's-sake. Are you saying, some other innocent bystander could have been shot instead? I don't think I look like a Muslim fanatic/Islamic extremist/terrorist or what-have-you but I'm glad I'm not walking around in London right now...
-- Sir Ian Blair, chief of the Metropolitan police.
The police explanation is that they had to kill someone to show the population that they are making the country safe... The police have tried to apologise. But they should all be ashamed. They have shown they are incapable and stupid. There's no explanation for what they have done... I don't get it. Someone needs to pay. I want answers. Don't give a gun to someone with a brain the size of a three-year-old."You want answers?? Well, they shot your cousin because they thought he was a freaking Muslim fanatic/Islamic extremist/terrorist. Since Menezes was a Brazilian and was believed to be a Roman Catholic, my guess is that anyone who doesn't look anglo is already a suspect, regardless of race or religion. Is this mindless racism or gross stereotyping? So suicide bombers cannot be ang-moh, is it??
-- Alex Pereira, 28, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man who was erroneously shot dead by London police.
But this is definitely an instance when sorry is no-enough. Perhaps local director Jack Neo should use it as a plotline for the sequel to his Money No Enough film, since he's quite fond of satire (albeit in safe, manageable doses). EH, that was quite lame, wasn't it? =p
