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The shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005
The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005 by Metropolitan Police officers in Stockwell, London. The incident came as London was on high alert after a failed attempt to bomb the London Underground on 21 July; two weeks after 52 people died in four separate central London suicide bombings. The programme looks at the training of the police who carry firearms.
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