The ominous morning of July 7, 2005 in the UK, when four Muslim boys boarded three trains and blew themselves up ignited the worst nightmare of a lifetime. Peace in the UK had been shattered. The war on terror, just as the sceptics had predicted and idealists, including myself, had denied, had actually come to Britain’s door.
In the midst of the ensuing situation, something else happened: the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian. His only crime was that he looked Asian or maybe a stereotyped Muslim with thick curly black hair and dark eyes. On July 22, 2005, he casually strolled inside his local train station, swiped his travel card and boarded a train. Seconds later, metropolitan officers wrestled him to the ground and shot seven bullets from point-blank range, killing him on the spot.
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