What's your take on the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes?

[Bombardier]

The cops were in civilian clothes? If so you've made a very good point.

Yep, they were. Uniformed officers in Britain don't carry guns. b made a good point too about the death squads. At the very least the guy came from Brazil where it's probably ingrained to run like that at the first sign of trouble.

[Shaolin Bushido]

The officers were special anti-terrorism guys thus no uniforms. He was a fool to run though ... was he a native english speaker?

[medium-deek]

This is a very sad case. You got to feel for the man and his parents. Lets not forget he was a foreigner in this country (he was Brazilian).

Now if I was a foreigner in Brazil and I saw a large group of Brazilian men approaching me (newspapers report up to 20 plain clothes officers tailing him) I too, would be worried. Infact I would run, just like he did.

His parents are planning on sueing the police and I wish them all the best.

[tntkid]

Armed Police tell you to STOP you STOP. No sympathy from me, sorry.

[Bombardier]

This is a very sad case. You got to feel for the man and his parents. Lets not forget he was a foreigner in this country (he was Brazilian).

Now if I was a foreigner in Brazil and I saw a large group of Brazilian men approaching me (newspapers report up to 20 plain clothes officers tailing him) I too, would be worried. Infact I would run, just like he did.

His parents are planning on sueing the police and I wish them all the best.

This is really the key to the whole thing. In fact if you ask most police officers I'd bet they would tell you to make absolutely sure that the person trying to talk to you or pull you over is an officer because of the problems they have with people posting as cops and then shaking people down or worse.

In fact I've heard that where I'm from if a cop has his sirens on you you can call the dispatcher and let them know that you're not going to pull over until you're in a safe place...they especially recommend this for women on highways.

[Ta Khent]

Although this is unfortunate tragedy, I can understand the reaction of the cops. This guy was came from the same apartment complex where the bombers lived. He was wearing a coat in the middle of July and he ran from the police. That in itself is very su****ious. Considering the recent bombings, the police doesn't know what this guy is capable of. For all intensive purposes, he could be a suicide bomber. The police assumed he was a suicide bomber and shot him before he could blow himself up. This is sad, but that's the world we live in now. I believe it was an honest mistake.

[Shaolin Bushido]

This is a very sad case. You got to feel for the man and his parents. Lets not forget he was a foreigner in this country (he was Brazilian).

Now if I was a foreigner in Brazil and I saw a large group of Brazilian men approaching me (newspapers report up to 20 plain clothes officers tailing him) I too, would be worried. Infact I would run, just like he did.

His parents are planning on sueing the police and I wish them all the best.

You make it sound as if he turned around and found the entire troupe of Monty Python "discretely" detecting him from 3 feet away!

If he understood halt, police or anything similar ... he should have done that.

[$$$Pinky$$$]

If you aint got nothin then why you running? that why they busted a kap in his ass. **** I remember when I got arrested i was cool as a kitty cat, **** that **** I aint trying to get a kap in my ass! y'all know what im saying?

[Explosivo]

Although this is unfortunate tragedy, I can understand the reaction of the cops. This guy was came from the same apartment complex where the bombers lived. He was wearing a coat in the middle of July and he ran from the police. That in itself is very su****ious. Considering the recent bombings, the police doesn't know what this guy is capable of. For all intensive purposes, he could be a suicide bomber. The police assumed he was a suicide bomber and shot him before he could blow himself up. This is sad, but that's the world we live in now. I believe it was an honest mistake.

While this may be true, that it was a honest mistake, I still believe they should be held accountable for this. If any one of us assaulted or killed someone in what we thought was self defence and then found out it was the wrong person we would be in jail. Im not saying the cops should go to jail, but I do think the London PD owes this family quite a bit of money.

[Mick Hucknall]

The Police had been tailing this man for the last few weeks and yes he stayed in the same flats as other suspects. Wearing a coat in summer is very su****ious and the police are on a " shoot to kill order" and the man did run away away when confronted and as far as the police knew he was armed to the teeth with explosives so they were only doing their duty in protecting the people of London. What if the man was a ********* and the police didn't shoot to kill then there would be another 20+ innnocent people dead. As far as the police are concerned. Better one person being dead (perhaps innocent), than another dozen plus innocent people dying. I know this is a tragedy but i respect the poliemen's decision as they were thinking of the welfare of the people of London.