How to get ahead in English law enforcement: Murder Brazilians
Learning about different cultures is an interesting experience. Just today I was telling my wife how I found salgados - the tasty treats Brazilians snack on in the hours before and after their big lunches - to be terrific and something that the U.S. didn’t really have.
And then there’s England. It seems if you’re in the law enforcement profession in England, a great way to move up the ladder is to go Mossad on innocent Brazilians and put seven bullets in their brain.
From Reuters, with a heads up from The Sideshow:
A police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man in London last year has been selected for promotion to one of the most senior policing jobs in the city.
Cressida Dick was in charge of the operation that led to Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, being shot seven times in the head on the underground after he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber.
Campaigners representing the family of de Menezes have previously said they wanted officers involved in the case, along with London’s police chief Ian Blair, to face action.
Blair himself was part of the five-strong panel that decided to promote Dick.
I’m not sure if Dick would have gotten the promotion had de Menzes been an actual terrorist, or if the promotion was given due to the possibility that it was payback for Brazil’s thwarting of England in the 2002 World Cup. Different cultures, you know?
Still, it would be strongly advised for any and all Brazilians in the London area to avoid any law enforcement types showing any signs of ambition.
–WKW
September 29th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
[…] They are not considered “anti-Brazilian” for hating their government, however. I get the impression things are that way in most nations, actually. […]