Police Admit Changing Story of Transit Shooting
From Times Wire Reports
London police acknowledged that a Brazilian shot to death had not run into a subway station, had not vaulted a gate and was not wearing a heavy jacket that could conceal a bomb.
Officers said they had met with Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins in London, as well as with Brazilian consular officials, two days after the shooting to tell them those facts.
Police shot Menezes on July 22, ‘the day after the failed transit bombings and two weeks after the deadly July 7 attacks.
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