The police did nothing wrong in the run-up to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a policewoman has told the inquest into his death.
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"The way he behaved getting on and off the bus contributed to our assessment" of him as a bomber, she said.
Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot after being mistaken for a terror suspect in 2005.
Ms Dick was asked by Nicholas Hilliard, QC for the coroner, Sir Michael Wright: "What went wrong?"
'Terrible circumstances'
She replied: "One thing that clearly went wrong was that we didn't manage as a nation to prevent those attacks.
"Mr de Menezes was a victim of terrible and extraordinary circumstances that day and afterwards.
"He was extremely unfortunate to live in the same block as Hussain Osman, desperately unfortunate to look very like Hussain Osman, and the things he did in all innocence, the way he behaved getting on and off the bus, contributed to our assessment - my assessment - of him as a bomber.
"But if you are asking me did we do anything wrong or unreasonable, then I don't think we did."
On 22 July 2005 the innocent electrician was shot seven times in the head at close range by two specialist officers after he got on a train at Stockwell Tube station in south London.
Officers had suspected he was failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman. Osman and three others tried to attack transport in London on 21 July 2005.
For the first time during the inquest, Mr de Menezes's mother was in court to hear evidence given about her son's death.
Mrs de Menezes, 63, flew into Britain from Brazil with her older son, Giovani de Menezes, 36, on Friday.
As well as hearing from Ms Dick, over the coming weeks she will hear evidence from the two officers who shot her son - known only as C1 and C2.
Last week Det Ch Supt Jon Boutcher told the inquest jury: "I cannot see anything we could have done that would have changed the course of the tragedy of Mr de Menezes."
He also admitted he could not rule out someone being killed in a similar situation again.
A spokesman for the Justice4Jean campaign said: "It has been highly alarming and extremely insulting for the bereaved Menezes family to hear evidence at the inquest from senior officers in the Metropolitan Police that they did nothing wrong and that a similar tragedy could happen again.
"This continued rebuttal of any wrongdoing on their part only adds to the shameful perception that the Metropolitan Police has no regrets and shows no remorse."
(BBC)
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