Born Brazil. Electrician. Shot dead in a tube carriage by counter-terrorist police officers hunting for would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to attack the London transport system the day before. He had been incorrectly identified as one of the bombers and the police followed him from his Tulse Hill flat, on to a bus, another bus, and thence to the tube where specialist firearm officers pinned him down and shot him 9 times at close range. Investigations into the shooting failed to pin the blame on anyone. Details about the campaign .
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Jean Charles de Menezes
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Jean Charles de Menezes
Unveiled on what would have been Menezes' 32nd birthday. This replaced the p...
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Forrest Melvin Cox
Major Forrest Melvin Cox was born on 20 February 1916 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, USA, the youngest of the three children of Joseph Ivan Cox (1891-1969) and Alta Maria Cox née Barrow (1...
Richard Ellery
Richard James Ellery was born on 19 April 1984 in Southampton, Hampshire, a son of Trevor A. Ellery and Beverley A. Ellery née Neal. Electoral registers for 2003 to 2005 show him listed at 13 Brams...
George H. Hodgson
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore
From a 2008 interview with Carrie Reichardt: "Black Panther Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore has been locked up since 1975 in Angola, one of the most brutal prisons in the USA, also known as ‘the last slave p...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
Gustav Landauer
Anarchist theorist. Born Germany. Also translated William Shakespeare into German. Beaten to death by soldiers while under arrest in Munich. Film director Mike Nichols is his grandson.
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