A Well-Deserved Accident

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has ruled that the Forest Gate shooting, like the Stockwell shooting, was nobody's fault. There was "no evidence" of intent or recklessness by the police officer who had the gun. The officer identified himself as "armed police" as he climbed the stairs of the house, but as he was wearing a respirator his words were muffled. The accidental-shootee, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, apparently jogged the highly-trained officer's arm, causing the highly-disciplined officer to fear for his life despite the two hundred and fifty colleagues who accompanied him on the raid.

In another development reminiscent of the Stockwell case, it has been discovered that the shoot-to-protectee was a criminal all along. Menezes, as may be remembered, was an illegal immigrant with a forged stamp in his Brazilian passport. Mohammed Abdul Kahar, as it now turns out, is a possible child abuse image manufacturer and collector. The police, who have had his computer in their possession for about two months, apparently found the incriminating images just in time to arrest him on the very day the IPCC report appeared.