Death of a Brazilian or how to massage the facts to fit the crime

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How government really works ...

Menazes runs for the train; the police close in; Menazes stumbles as he enters the carriage. The police board the train, jump on the unfortunate Brazilian and administer the coup de grace, seven shots to the head and one in the shoulder.

No doubt this is followed by a triumphant message to their bosses, ‘We got ‘im chief!’ Another ‘terrorist’ bites the dust.

From this point on, it’s downhill for the men in (plainclothes) blue, for on identification, they realise that their ‘Islamic terrorist’ is in fact a Brazilian. Whoops! Big cock-up. What to do?

In the meantime, chief London cop, Blair of the Yard in his haste to claim a success (no doubt one more notch on his way to collecting his knighthood for ‘services rendered to the state’) has already announced that Menazes is definitely “directly connected to the terrorist network”.

Wm. Bowles

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1. British police and authorities don't engage in that sort of.....

...dishonest behavior, do they?:sarcasm:

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2. Of course not, they only wish to serve the people and do good.

:sarcasm:

[Matilda]

3. A minor point,

but Bowles has missed the fact that Ian Blair already has a gong -
he is Sir Ian Blair.

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4. Thank you.

I would speculate that for rhetorical purposes he liked it better without the honorific. Is that sort of omission considered a faux pas in Britain?