by Brian Reade - The Mirror Newspaper (UK tabloid)
"WE now know that the Brazilian murdered by police in Stockwell wasn't a suspected suicide bomber.
We now know he didn't wear a bulky coat, didn't vault a ticket barrier or run when ordered to stop, and that he was executed after he'd been restrained.
So why am I not surprised that our police appear to have been grossly incompetent, recklessly gung-ho and obscenely dishonest in immediately issuing a pack of lies to cover their own backsides?
Mainly because I was at the Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 when 96 people were killed while under police supervision, and a similar train of events ensued.
While the dead were still being identified, a police story travelled the world that the fans were drunk, had forced down a gate, crushed their own to death, before pick-pocketing and urinating on the corpses. (Later it was found that Police had altered notebooks and statements on their views of the fans of the day to portray an unruly drunken crowd that had arrived late for the game)
Lord Justice Taylor eventually proved this was all lies, and he firmly blamed the police for the disaster.
But by then it was too late. The world had swallowed the lies, the police had investigated themselves and cleared every officer of blame.
No wonder Scotland Yard wanted to run its own inquiry into the Stockwell tragedy, too.
British police? The best in the world..."
I've no problem with the officer who made the split-second decision to fire the shot(s) - though the cover up and slur campaign is disgraceful.