British prosecutors on Monday declined to seek criminal charges against two London police officers who shot and killed a Brazilian electrician last July after mistakenly identifying him as a suicide bomber. . . . On July 22, as Londoners were fearing that Islamic radicals had begun a campaign of bombings in the city, [Jean Charles de] Menezes was spotted by police who were staking out a building where one of the July 21 bombing suspects lived. Police followed him to a subway station, where he boarded a train and was confronted by anti-terrorism officers who pinned him down and shot him repeatedly in front of horrified passengers. (Washington Post, Tuesday)
Things come out different when the tables are turned. (See this.)
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Liberty: The Other Equality (pdf) by Roderick T. Long