Erm I don’t really know who would get the blame (if there is any) for this but I’m just amazed that it’s been brought up as a real news piece.
Basically the Robert DeNiro/Al Pacino film ‘Righteous Kill’ posters have a tag line “there’s nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot”
Someone really should have taken them down during the Charles De Menezes enquiry, or not put them up at all perhaps?
I guess no one is to blame - it’s just a coincidence etc - but I think it’s absolutely right that once spotted it was removed - the display of this poster at Stockwell tube station is entirely inappropriate and distasteful in the context of what happened to Jean Charles de Menezes.
If it was displayed at Stockwell Tube Station during the trial – that is highly disgraceful. Hopefully it’s just a silly oversight, but I don’t think it would have been missed by many and should have been removed.
Aye but can you imagine his family and the jury going down there to see the scene and there’s a poster saying in big letters that it’s ok to shoot people aslong as they’re the right ones?
Someone, Tube staff included, should have thought about it really.
this is hardly news… Sorry for the family but come on…
As good old Bill Hicks said
" do you think Jesus wants a picture of him on the cross as a way of remember him’ or Jackie Onassis wanting a necklace of a rifle for President Kennedy…"
Quote
“A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fcuking cross? It’s like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.”
Isn’t it now on record that he didn’t run - he was sitting down in the tube when he was challenged - what’s so PC about investigating how an innocent man came to have 11 hollow point bullets pumped into his brain?The following contains details of the pursuit:
Menezes entered the Tube station at about 10: 00 a.m., stopping to pick up a free Metro newspaper. He used his Oyster card to pay the fare, walked through the barriers, and descended the escalator slowly. He then ran across the platform to board the newly arrived train. Menezes boarded the train and found one of the first available seats.
Menezes’ body shown lying on the floor of a carriage, wearing a denim jacket.Three surveillance officers, codenamed Hotel 1, Hotel 3 and Hotel 9, followed Menezes on to the train. According to Hotel 3, Menezes sat down with a glass panel to his right about two seats in. Hotel 3 then took a seat on the left with about two or three passengers between Menezes and himself. When the firearms officers arrived on the platform, Hotel 3 moved to the door, blocked it from closing with his left foot, and shouted ‘He’s here!’ to identify the suspect’s location.
The firearms officers boarded the train and it was initially claimed they challenged the suspect, though later report indicates he was not challenged.[11] According to Hotel 3, Menezes then stood up and advanced towards the officers and Hotel 3, at which point Hotel 3 grabbed him, pinned his arms against his torso, and pushed him back into the seat. Although Menezes was being restrained, his body was straight and not in a natural sitting position. Hotel 3 heard a shot close to his ear, and was dragged away on to the floor of the carriage. He shouted ‘Police!’ and with hands raised was dragged out of the carriage by one of the armed officers who had boarded the train. Hotel 3 then heard several gunshots while being dragged out.[12] Two officers fired a total of eleven shots according to the number of empty shell casings found on the floor of the train afterwards. Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at close range, and died at the scene. An eyewitness later said that the eleven shots were fired over a thirty second period, at three second intervals.[13
Shocking that you still think this is what happened, given the coverage it’s been given. Not sure a country being PC is remotely relative either - it’s about something going wrong and attempting to discover why. Is that a bad thing when an entirely innocent person has died?
Anyway, it’s the ads for that Clint Eastwood movie on the sides of the buses that gets me. Because of the typeface they used and the tight spacing, CLINT looks like… well… need I explain?
