Menezes subway shooting report [UK IPCC] News
Menezes subway shooting report [UK IPCC]

Stockwell Two: An investigation into complaints about the Metropolitan Police Service's handling of public statements following the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July 2005, Independent Police Complaints Commission, August 2, 2007 [clearing London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair of any misconduct but concluding that Assistant Commissioner Andrew Haymen misled his colleagues and the public about the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes in the wake of the London transit bombings]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Watergate burglary trial began

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On January 8, 1961, voters in France overwhelmingly approved self-determination for Algeria. By a 75 percent margin, French citizens voted in favor of a referendum which allowed the colony of Algeria to determine its own future. On July 1, 1961, Algerians elected to become an independent nation by a near-unanimous margin. These events concluded nearly a decade of fighting in the French-Algerian War. Learn more about the history of the French-Algerian War.