A commuter who was sitting near Jean Charles de Menezes on a Tube train has told his inquest that police gave no warning before killing him.
Anna Dunwoodie said she believed officers were "out of control" and gave off a "sense of panic" before shooting.
She claimed that the innocent 27-year-old appeared calm as a gun was held to his head.
Mr de Menezes was killed in 2005 in south London by police who mistook him for a failed 21 July suicide bomber.
Ms Dunwoodie was sitting two or three seats to the left of Mr de Menezes when he boarded the train at Stockwell Tube Station, south London on 22 July 2005.
She told the inquest that, at the time, she thought the firearms officers pursuing Mr de Menezes were members of a gang.
He was shot seven times in the head at point-blank range after being mistaken for failed bomber Hussain Osman.
(Italics added.) Wow. I would think parents in families with Muslim-looking genealogy and Mulsim-sounding last names might identify enormously, these days, with parents of Black youth in the U.S. of A.
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