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Who benefits? The largest group in Parliament are lawyers, they draft and pass the laws, so who do the think always wins in legal proceedings? The lawyers.

Re this case: Whilst I accept the police got this badly wrong, we have not had a number of answers, including: What was De Menenez doing in UK, he was illegally there. Who supplied the cocaine found in his blood, where did get his professionally forged passport and who paid for it, who did he work for, where did the funds to keep him come from, did he send money to his family if so where did that come from? If the bulky pockets claim was true, what was in the pockets. I am sure there are a lot more questions too.

How was he was shoot? When I was authorised to carry a gun in the Met Police, Detectives were career detectives. It was my decision whether to shoo (that always in effect meant shoot to kill as that is the only way one can stop a person from using a firearm or detonating a bomb). It was also my responsibly to justify what I did if I shot someone and if I had got it wrong, it was me who would have appeared in court.

Now they have rapid promotion oficers being called detectives but who have almost no CID experience. Now making literally life taking decisions from remote desks in headquarters . Rather like making a GP one day into a brain surgeon the next and wondering why their patients die.

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