Resistance is Phutile

Police justice.

The leaked IPCC report finds that the Special Branch covered its tracks, doctoring a logbook in which one of the SB surveillance officers is recorded to have wrongly identified de Menezes as Hussein Osman, suspected would-be suicide bomber.

The fact the IPCC report was leaked is not to be scoffed at. I had intended to hop on the bus to Stockwell last Sunday and show support for the family of de Menezes in their calls for the report to be made public; my plans being foiled by a cowboy gas man. The Special Branch's underhand tactics have thankfully been exposed.

But what now, one wonders. What sort of punishment awaits those who left their Firearms wielding police brethren to take the flack in order to save their own skins?
(No honour among thief-takers either, then.)

Apparently all the Special Branch officers on duty that day deny all involvement or knowledge of the incident. In that case, arrest them all for withholding knowledge and perverting the course of justice.

And what of the efforts to confront de Menezes before he "ran" (walked) into the station? There are so many unanswered questions, the IPCC report just doesn't seem to have gone far enough.

Compare this indifference with the absolute disgust the murder of pc Beshenivsky was met with by the force. It reeks of self-serving, unjust contempt for the people the service is meant to protect.

posted by Phu @ 1:23 pm