ScarfaceClaw wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:52 pm
Did he not? I’ll admit my larger ignorance but it was fairly widely presented that he’d skipped through the barrier if not physically jumped them. It’s a genuine comment as I haven’t ever seen anything presented saying that he didn’t. Probably due to me largely just going on what was in the media at the time so I’ll freely admit that I’m not hugely aware of all the details.
Nope, he used his Oyster card; but you like everyone else heard within hours from the media, that he vaulted the barriers; & it took months for some, partial, version of the truth to come out.
The leaked statements from witnesses to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes refute the account spun to a compliant press in the immediate aftermath of his killing (Reports, August 17). It was claimed he was wearing a heavy jacket, implying he could have been concealing bombs on his body, that he vaulted a barrier, ran from the police and refused to stop.
Now we learn he was wearing a light denim jacket, used his oyster card at Stockwell station, descended to the platform by escalator, had time to pick up a paper and, most damning of all, was being restrained by a surveillance officer when police officers pumped him full of bullets. In addition we are told surveillance broke down when one officer went to relieve himself, that mysteriously and culpably no CCTV cameras were working on Stockwell station just two weeks after 7/7. This is appalling.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug ... tionpolicy
And the last line is, probably, one of the biggest lies still in circulation.
The Met seized all the CC coverage, & then after they had it all, they claimed it was all blank, & the only footage was the one camera on the train. The tube operator said they had no indications that there were any issues with the cctv, & given that there would have been people sitting in an office watching the feeds 24x7, I find it rather difficult to believe that they wouldn't know if dozens of cameras failed !
Are you seeing a pattern here ?