The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

As more details emerge, this story becomes more disturbing. The Brazilian electrician was held down by plain-clothes police officers and shot five times in the head.

Here's an eye-witness account, from Final minutes of the innocent man mistaken for a terrorist, linked to today by TCR News Musings:

By far the most controversial claim comes from a number of witnesses who have cast doubt on police statements that they shouted a warning or identified themselves to the suspect before opening fire.

Lee Ruston, 32, who was on the platform, said that he did not hear any of the three shout “police” or anything like it. Mr Ruston, a construction company director, said that he saw two of the officers put on their blue baseball caps marked “police” but that the frightened electrician could not have seen that happen because he had his back to the officers and was running with his head down.

Mr Ruston remembers one of the Scotland Yard team screaming into a radio as they were running. Mr Ruston thought the man that they were chasing “looked Asian” as he tumbled on to a waiting Northern Line train.

Less than a minute later Mr Menezes was pinned to the floor of the carriage by two men while a third officer fired five shots into the base of his skull.

Again, Mr Ruston says that no verbal warning was given.

[image from Man Shot by London Police Had No Terror Ties]