So, today's top news story...

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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.

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Well, that's a no-brainer. Surely they endangered the public by shooting at least one member of the public during an operation.

It's a horrific mess that's hard to find personal responsibility within. The guys pulling triggers were ordered to, and those guys have to trust that the control folks relaying the order to kill if necessary the Bad Guy is valid. The commander who makes that call is relying on several intelligence threads (hopefully) to draw together their assessment of risk. They have to trust that their intelligence is okay enough.

So, yeah. Regrettably tragic event and I'm glad they found them guilty of this. I very much doubt that there will be a prosecution for this death because of the difficulty of tracing any individual responsibility.