TIM HAMES, TIMES, UK - If al-Qaida has created an atmosphere in which an ordinary person can have five bullets pumped into him by the police, and society shrugs its shoulders, then the terrorists have already won a modest victory. . . [The] attempt to blame Mr Menezes for his own death continues unabated. It was hinted that he might have been an illegal immigrant, as if that justifies what occurred. It has been argued that it was 'irresponsible' of him to wear a quilted jacket in July, as if that were a crime. There are, furthermore, 'no excuses', it is intoned, for the fact that he ran when armed plainclothes police officers shouted at him. I don't know about you, but if I found myself minding my own business on the Sao Paulo metro and was suddenly confronted by men wearing no uniforms but wielding weapons, screaming at me in Portuguese, I too might choose to bolt for it.
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