Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead in the head, was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed plainclothes police, his cousin said yesterday.
But his cousin wasn't there so how would he know.
Another cousin, Patricia da Silva Armani, 21, said he was in Britain legally to work and study, giving him no reason to fear the police.
The investigation has a long way to go but it turns out Menezes may not have been in the country legally and that would explain why he ran when challenged by police.
Scotland Yard initially claimed he wore a bulky jacket and jumped the barrier when police identified themselves and ordered him to stop.
Nowhere in this article does the Guardian show were Scotland Yard changed their version of events in regards to the jacket and barrier. So why the "initially claimed" reference to the jacket and barrier? The Guardian moves from the jacket and barrier, to the police's changed position of Menezes connection to the terrorists in the same paragraph, in hopes you'll think the police now say he wasn't wearing a bulky jacket and didn't leap the barrier. But that's not what the police said.
The Guardian tries to pull a rabbit out of hat here. They start off saying Sir Ian Blair claimed Menezes was linked to the terrorists and the next day, after investigating, Blair said he wasn't connected to them. Nothing sinister about that.
Well, it is the Guardian after all.
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