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Today we gathered at Stockwell to mark 15 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by the Metropolitan police. No officers were ever charged for his murder. Working with his family has been one of the great honours of my life. Here’s a short thread about #justice4jean (1) 
Jean’s death still feels like it was yesterday... especially in a world where police impunity following deaths in custody continues to be the norm in the U.K.
It’s a travesty that not a single police officer was held accountable for the death of an innocent man and that the state even shut down the option of leaving “unlawful killing” at the inquest.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the state-sanctioned killing of Jean Charles de Menezes by Metropolitan Police firearms officers at Stockwell underground station. The officer in command of the operation that gunned down an innocent man is now Commissioner #Justice4Jean
To this day, police apologists say Jean "vaulted over the ticket barriers" despite CCTV recordings of him using a travel card shown at a trial of the Metropolitan Police for breaches of health & safety regulations in 2007. This was one of numerous attempts to smear his memory
Immediately after the shooting, then Commissioner Sir Ian Blair initially refused to refer the killing to the police complaints body and denied its investigators access to the scene for several days. Subsequently police claimed platform-level CCTV tapes were mysteriously blank
