No punishment for 11 cops involved in de Menezes murder

Relatives of a Brazilian immigrant killed by London police are upset at the decision by British authorities to not charge eleven of the police officers involved in the shooting. "It is a travesty of justice and another slap in the face for our family," said a cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, though four “senior officers” may still be disciplined.

Two weeks after the July 2005 bombings in London, de Menezes was shot seven times in the head as he rode in the subway by officers who thought he was a suicide bomber. His death sparked outrage throughout Brazil and Scotland Yard has even been accused of running a posthumous “smear campaign” against de Menezes.

Image- Londonist (Side-by-side image of wanted suicide bomber Hussain Osman (left), and Jean Charles de Menezes (right))

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