Media
The shooting was the subject of an hour-long "factual drama" titled Stockwell, first broadcast on the UK terrestrial channel ITV1 on 21 January 2009 at 9 pm.
During The Wall Live tour, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd added an acoustic coda to "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" with additional lyrics in honour of Menezes.
A film about Menezes's life, titled Jean Charles, was filmed in 2008 and directed by Henrique Goldman. Selton Mello portrays Menezes and Vanessa Giácomo portrays his cousin. The movie debuted on 26 June 2009, in Brazil.
The documentary play Stockwell opened in July 2009 at the Landor Theatre in Clapham in London. This play featured actors reading scripts edited by playwright Kieron Barry from transcripts of the inquest.
This Much is True written by Paul Unwin (co-creator of the BBC television show Casualty) and Sarah Beck, is a documentary stage play following the journeys of those caught in the wake of the shooting, weaving together testimony from Jean’s family, Justice4Jean campaigners, senior police officers and lawyers. The production ran at Theatre 503 in Battersea from 27 October–21 November 2009.
A Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na recorded a song called "Viisi laukausta päähän" (lit. "Five shots to the head") on their second album, Uudet kymmenen käskyä. The song interprets de Menezes being "a beast", hunted by authorities due to the misidentification of him being a terrorist. It also describes a "need" to cut the evil by its roots and track down everything associated with terrorism etc.
A critical account of the shooting was written and recorded as a song "Hollow Point" by Chris Wood on the album Handmade Life. The song won Song Of The Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2011.
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“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why—but the editorialists forget it—terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
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—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
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—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)