Superdude said:
I still don't get why the officers who did the shooting are close to being charged with manslaughter. They were given the green light by a superior officer to open fire and were just doing thier job.
Mistake or not
I wouldn't have thought this was the thread for that debate .... or the day for it. The debate about exactly who did what, and why, really ought to wait for the publication of the CPS enquiry which, of course, won't happen while criminal charges are pending. Personally, I can't help but suspect that the decision to bring some obscure Health and Safety charges against the Met (and 'coincidentally', thereby preventing that report going into the public domain while those charges are pending, which could be a year or two) is just a
little bit suspicious.
I have some questions, personally, over what happened that day. But whatever went wrong, Jean Charles didn't deserve what happened to him.
RIP, J-C.