MENEZES INQUEST CORONER "EMOTIONALLY CAUGHT SHORT".
The MENEZES INQUEST coroner has been "caught short" and without even having to chance a one-stop ride on the underground to STOCKWELL STATION. On the one hand the surviving relatives of MENEZES staged a silent demo at the inquest with tee shirts spelling out clearly to the JURY that they could - if they so chose - bring in an unlawful killing finding against the MET for the execution of Jean Charles.
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"Caught short" the CORONER was, and he wasn't having any of that so among other things he reminded the JURY that a killer cop who'd given testimony had actually shed tears (>here<).
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"Caught short" the CORONER was, and he wasn't having any of that so among other things he reminded the JURY that a killer cop who'd given testimony had actually shed tears (>here<).
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"Later in his summing up, the coroner reminded the jury of the moment that "Charlie 12", one of the policemen who shot Mr de Menezes, broke down in tears during his evidence. "This tough, fit, highly trained, mature man broke down in tears and this fact may assist you in assessing the depth of the emotional experience that he was going through here when he was reliving the terrible events of July 22 [2005]," he said".
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The interesting contrasting aspect here is that he had previously warned the JURY against getting overwrought because of the extremely obvious pain and injury felt by MENEZES' family - "members of the jury put that to one side it is emotionalism whereas it is not emotionalism but evidence that you are here to consider" .
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Does rather seem like there is "emotionalism" that the police ought to be able to rely upon, and Menezes emotionalism of a very similar kind that the coroner doesn't recognise as being valid, and indeed is even to be warned against. Wot a non-surprise.
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posted by Ian Cameron aka KILROY WAS-A-HERO @ 04:09
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