The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005 was lawful. The police officers who killed de Menezes, believing he was a suicide bomber, should not be prosecuted, the Strasbourg court ruled. De Menezes, died after he being pinned down by police at a London tube station and shot eleven times. RT reports: The shooting took place nearly 11 years ago in the tense days following the 7/7 terror attacks in which 56 Londoners died. De Menezes, 27, was pursued by armed police into Stockwell Underground Station, South London, on July 22, 2005. They allegedly believed he was a terrorist fugitive. The electrician, who lived in the same block of flats as several of the 7/7 bombers, was shot 11 times at close range. In a case brought by the deceased’s cousin Patricia Armani Da Silva in 2008, the court ruled the officers involved could not be charged with his murder. She is challenging an earlier ruling by Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which said none of the officers should face charges. A 2006 report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) suggested a number of command mistakes had led to [...]