Police Accused of Altering Photos to Incriminate Terror Suspect
Even the police are getting pretty good at Photoshop. Which is becoming something of a problem.
The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom have been accused of manipulating a photo of Jean Charles de Menezes -- who was shot dead after being falsely identified as one of the men who targeted London's underground tube train -- so it could be more easily likened to one of the actual plotters.
Prosecutors are saying the image had been "stretched and sized" to form a composite image of de Menezes (who is Brazilian) and and one of the bombers, Hussain Osman. The Metropolitan Police denies any wrongdoing, saying the composite picture was created to illustrate the difficulties officers would have had in differentiating between the two men.
The 27 year-old de Menezes was shot seven times in the head on a train at London's Stockwell Tube station, in July of 2005.
From the BBC
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