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Police had no lawful justification for shooting dead a 24 year old man in north London eight years ago, an enquiry has found.
Azelle Rodney was shot six times in Edgware after the car he was in was stopped by Met police officers in 2005.
One officer, known only be their call sign E7, who said he opened fire because he believed Mr Rodney was reaching for a gun could now face criminal charges. No firearms or weapons were found in the car Rodney was travelling in.
Mr Rodneys mother, Susan Alexander, has demanded an apology from the Met.
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That kind of thing happens here too & they don't shoot to disarm, they shoot to kill. I often wonder why some of those chickenshit cops are even in that line of work.
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The Met police are like the LAPD notoriously over zealous and incompetent.
The worst such incident was the de Menezez incident in London in 2005. An innocent Brazilian misidentified as a potential raghead terrorist was followed by armed Met officers. No attempt was made to arrest or apprehend him and the police at no point identified who they were or what they were doing.
They wrestled him to the ground, pinned him down and shot him seven times in the head at point blank range.
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This makes me recall the time the cops here raped a suspect with a broom handle/mop handle, whatever the hell it was and then there was the time they shot a guy standing in a doorway, they didn't just plug him with a bullet, they shot a tremendous number of rounds. There are so many stories like this.
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They raped a suspect with a broom handle?! Jesus Christ!
Remember those striking miners in South Africa last year that were machine gunned to death by the police like fucking dogs last year?
The de menezez incident was an execution the incident in South Africa was a massacre.
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I apologize in advance that this has come from Wiki. 
On August 9, 1997, Louima visited Club Rendez-Vous, a popular nightclub in East Flatbush. Late in the night, he and several other men interceded in a fight between two women. The police were called and several officers from the 70th Precinct were dispatched to the scene. There was a confrontation between the police, patrons and bystanders involved in the scuffle outside the club. The responding patrol officers included Justin Volpe, Charles Schwarz, Thomas Bruder, and Thomas Wiese, among others. In the ensuing scuffle, Volpe was struck by a "sucker-punch" and identified Louima as his assailant. Volpe arrested Louima on charges of disorderly conduct, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest. Volpe later admitted he was mistaken about Louima being his assailant.
The arresting officers beat Louima with their fists, nightsticks, and hand-held police radios on the ride to the station. On arriving at the station house, he was strip-searched and put in a holding cell. The beating continued later, culminating with Louima being sexually assaulted in a bathroom at the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. Volpe kicked Louima in the testicles, then, while Louima's hands were cuffed behind his back, he first grabbed onto and squeezed his testicles and then sodomized him with a plunger. According to trial testimony, Volpe then walked through the precinct holding the bloody, excrement-stained instrument in his hand, bragging to a police sergeant that he "took a man down tonight."
Louima's teeth were also badly damaged in the attack by having the plunger handle jammed into his mouth.
The day after the incident, Louima was taken to the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital. Escorting officers explained away his serious injuries being a result of "abnormal homosexual activities". An emergency room nurse, Magalie Laurent, suspecting the nature of Louima's extreme injuries were not the result of gay sex, notified Louima's family and the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau of the likelihood of sexual assault and battery. The attack left Louima with severe internal damage to his colon and bladder that required three major operations to repair. He was hospitalized for two months after the incident.
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My God, that is fucking horrendous.
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One of the cops got 30 yrs; the victim got millions from NYC.
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I remember that incident.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.
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I have a strong feeling the victim will never forget it despite the millions in compo.
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