The Tragedy Deepens
Police 'ordered to take Brazilian alive'
The police officer in charge of the anti-terror operation that ended in the death of an innocent Brazilian ordered her men to take him alive, a newspaper has reported.
Commander Cressida Dick, who was the Metropolitan Police Gold Commander on July 22, instructed officers following Jean Charles de Menezes to detain him before he entered Stockwell Tube station, the Daily Mirror has claimed.
The paper quoted a senior police source who said: "There's no doubt that Commander Dick did not instruct anyone to shoot de Menezes.
"The gun team were there as a precaution. It looks as if they didn't have time to tell them to grab the man, not shoot him dead. The difference between de Menezes living and dying may have been five seconds."
The police officer in charge of the anti-terror operation that ended in the death of an innocent Brazilian ordered her men to take him alive, a newspaper has reported.
Commander Cressida Dick, who was the Metropolitan Police Gold Commander on July 22, instructed officers following Jean Charles de Menezes to detain him before he entered Stockwell Tube station, the Daily Mirror has claimed.
The paper quoted a senior police source who said: "There's no doubt that Commander Dick did not instruct anyone to shoot de Menezes.
"The gun team were there as a precaution. It looks as if they didn't have time to tell them to grab the man, not shoot him dead. The difference between de Menezes living and dying may have been five seconds."
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