Following the verdict that the Metropolitan Police are guilty of endangering public safety, Siân Berry has called for the immediate resignation of Met Commissioner Ian Blair.
Siân said: "The Met can no longer write off the killing of Jean-Charles de Menezes as an unfortunate accident. This verdict shows that the police behaved in a dangerous and trigger-happy manner, and that’s the reason an innocent young man is dead. If the responsibility for this disgraceful breach of public duty is not felt right to the top, the next victim could be you, or me, or any of us. Ian Blair must resign immediately to allow us to start to rebuild the trust in our police service.
"It’s incomprehensible that, even after it cost the life of a blameless Londoner, the Commissioner refused to end his shoot-to-kill policy. There’s no reason to believe that it offers any protection from a suicide bomb; it is simply summary execution by any other name and has no place in a democratic society. There can be no more excuses; shoot-to-kill must end now."