So, today's top news story...

[mrph]

Police guilty over Menezes case
London's Metropolitan police force has been found guilty of endangering the public over the fatal shooting of a man officers mistook for a suicide bomber.

Discuss.

Comments

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

Good.

I still think disciplinary action should result. But at least they've been held to account to some degree.

[cyberinsekt.livejournal.com]

> I still think disciplinary action should result.

This will never happen. The IPCC has stated as much, and frankly they are on the wrong side of the wall of silence that has surrounded this case. It's the same any time one of our brave army lads, or gallant thin blue line act "completely out of character". Up goes the wall and somehow they're never at fault, it's always the system to blame: they were acting on inadequate information, they were only following orders, we are only civilians and cannot understand the situation in which they find themselves. They will always protect their own, for to do otherwise would expose the rest of the nation to facts of which we are better left unaware. Do we genuinely want to understand that our police exist in a state of perpetual hysteria, or that our military hold us in contempt, or that our politicians are simply power brokers? Of course not. So our blessed ignorance must be protected, otherwise we might see what it actually takes to keep a nation running. And we wouldn't like that one little bit.