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
