phykell said:If some of you think this is irrelevant, think again. This regrettable event has wrecked peoples' lives and will have far-reaching consequences with regards to how the Police's armed response teams act in future. The evidence so far shows that the guy was an innocent individual who died as a result of a number of failures and an attitude borne of the current terrorist threat from people who live and work amongst us. IMO, we and our Police force are far better off remembering this particular death of an innocent civilian than simply consigning it to history.
Let us also hope that this mistake doesn't stop the police from taking similar action in the future if it is needed. As for Charles De Menzes - a sad incident, not helped by his illegal residence in the UK. Perhaps if they had actually known who he was and why he was here the event would not have occurred, not that other mistakes weren't made as well.
I do wonder why the OP did not create a thread for the other 52 victims though .......... I seem to recall some disdain from him about "all these unnecessary 1 and 2 minute silences" though .... I wonder if the 4 bombers are counted in the 53 "victims" ....