Tony Blair said he is "desperately sorry" for the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician who was shot by plain-clothed police officers at a London tube station. But London's police chief Sir Ian Blair said his officers will continue their shoot-to-kill policy. He warned that more innocent people might be killed in the fight against terrorism.
Canvass young people's reactions. Do they accept that innocent deaths are a necessary price in the war against terror?
Talk about the reaction of Jean Charles de Menezes. What might he have been thinking? Would young people have behaved in the same way? Discuss how they might have reacted if they were abroad and ordered to stop by plain-clothed men with a gun? Would they behave differently following the events in London?
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