Ken Livingstone, who was mayor of London at the time of the de Menezes shooting in July 2005, praised the senior officer in charge of the police surveillance operation that led to de Menezes being shot dead on a train after being mistaken for a fugitive suicide bomber. Livingstone said Cressida Dick was one of the “most talented” officers he had worked with. “She has an incredible record and I hope that her career continues to progress in the police because I have always considered she has commissioner potential,” he said. Livingstone cast doubt on the testimony of witnesses to the shooting who contradicted evidence given by police marksmen that they had shouted “armed police” to de Menezes before shooting him dead with seven bullets. Livingstone said he was “tempted to trust” the marksmen’s testimony even though the jurors had dismissed their claims that a warning had been shouted and that de Menezes had walked towards them in a threatening manner before he was killed. - David Leppard, Times

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