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I Thought It Was A Dystopian Nightmare, But Then I Realised I Wasn’t Dreaming
Thursday, July 9, 2015 8:11
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You might be forgiven for believing that murder has become an official police policy. Yet again we see that another police officer has been cleared of murder – and yet again as the target lay injured, the officer in question continued shooting.
In 2005 Azelle Rodney was shot dead in north London. Then police officer Anthony Long was following a car in which Azelle and two other men were travelling and forced the car to a standstill in Hale Lane, Edgware. Long fired eight shots at the car and claimed in court that he ha acted in self defence because he believed that Azelle was armed and intended to shoot. However on trial at the Old Bailey Long admitted that he did not actually see a weapon at the time.
