Meanwhile, Menezes’s relatives are challenging the official version of the story. They say he was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed plainclothes police. Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with the Metropolitan police, the man’s cousin, Vivien Figueiredo condemned the shoot-to-kill policy that had led to her cousin’s death and vowed that what she called the “crime” would not go unpunished. She said, “Although we are living in circumstances similar to a war, we should not be exterminating people unjustly.” She spoke at a news conference with the family’s lawyer, Gareth Peirce, and antiwar activist Bianca Jagger.