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To: steve dietrich who wrote (166998)	7/23/2005 11:04:34 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

It is sad, for the police as well. The cop was probably thinking he had to kill the guy before he could detonate himself. This is probably the first of many of such. I'm sure this happens in Iraq several times a week.

To: steve dietrich who wrote (166998)	7/23/2005 11:46:36 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

An unarmed Brazilian Catholic hunted down like a dog and butchered at point blank range. Those plaincloths "police" have a lot of explaining to do. They had an unarmed man down yet they unloaded 5 shots to the head and torso at point blank range. Sheesh... msnbc.msn.com Brazil ‘shocked and perplexed’ by shooting In Brazil, the Foreign Ministry said it was “shocked and perplexed” by the death of Menezes, whom it did not name but described as “apparently the victim of a lamentable mistake.” The ministry said it expected British authorities to explain the circumstances of the shooting, and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim would try to arrange a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during a visit to London. Brazilian media reported that Menezes was an electrician who had been legally living and working in England for the past three years. He originally came from the small city of Gonzaga, some 500 miles northeast of Sao Paulo in the state of Minas Gerais. “He spoke English very well, and had permission to study and work there,” Menezes’ cousin Maria Alves told the O Globo Online Web site from her home in Sao Paulo. London mayor: Killing a ‘human tragedy’ Menezes’ family was Roman Catholic. When asked if he had become Muslim in Britain, Agostino Ferreira Rosa, a policeman in Gonzaga said: “According to his family, he had nothing to do with Muslims or Islamism. He was Catholic.” “There was no reason to think he was a terrorist,” Menezes’ grandmother, Zilda Ambrosia de Figueiredo, told the Globo TV late Saturday. “He was very easygoing and very communicative with everybody. It’s terrible what they have done to him.”