Inequities are the Same: LAPD and Scotland Yard

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In a move that makes Scotland Yard look like LAPD, the officer deemed responsible for shooting a Brazilian immigrant in the London subway has received promotion. It seems like the global trend is to allow the police to mistreat and even kill immigrants without consequence.

"A top Scotland Yard officer who was personally criticised for failings in the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting [in London] has been appointed to the leadership of the Independent Police Complaints Commission." London Guardian

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Menezes police officer gets top IPCC role

• Met aide to work for same body that criticised him
• Victim's family shocked by watchdog appointment

• Vikram Dodd
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 October 2009 19.53 GMT

A top Scotland Yard officer who was personally criticised for failings in the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting has been appointed to the leadership of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Commander Moir Stewart will be the IPCC's new director of investigations and a member of its management board.

Menezes was shot dead on July 22, 2005, after being mistaken by armed police for a suicide bomber.

At the time Stewart was a top aide to Met commissioner Sir Ian Blair, serving as his staff officer. The IPCC report into the killing of the innocent Brazilian found Stewart had failed to tell Blair of a "major" development, which suggested the wrong man had been shot. Blair claimed he did not know this until the next day despite many inside the force soon fearing that an innocent man had been killed...link to complete Guardian article