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> Taking into account that the UK law enforcement and Brazil have a bit of a history when it comes to labeling people terrorist wrongly makes it even worse.

In case anybody is wondering, the UK murdered a Brazilian man on the train with several bullets to the head after they explicitly identified him as a suspect and authorized his takedown. He had no ties to terrorism at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Meneze...

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It was a mistake in all the confusion right after 7/7 bombing of London tubes. Tragic, but completely understandable.

Even if we accept the operational mistakes they made, and if we also accept their questionable explanation of why it was necessary to shoot a prone man in the head... even then it's unforgivable they way they lied to the press about the incident afterwards.

How was it understandable? Because he looked brown enough and lived in the same apartments as the suspects?

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