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Mark Duggan shooting inquest in London finally starts...

The article said he had a minor criminal record, but made the assumption that he was one of Europe's most feared and violent by his alleged association with the Tottenham Mandem gang.

"Core member" is a bit stronger than an 'alleged association'.
 
I will concede that he had some minor convictions, having re-read some stuff.

Does that make him "a criminal"? I guess it does, along with thousands of people who have been nicked for a bit of dope, or speeding, or getting into a fight at the wrong time when they were young.

Is that the most important thing here? No, although it is clear as day that the cops and the media have collaborated as usual (Harry Stanley, Smiley Culture, Charles DeMenezes) to make it the most important thing.
 
This wasnt oh look a black person lets shoot him he was under survillence the met dont have the budget to start operations on the off chance a black mans a bit dodgy that what stop and search is for:facepalm:

So gangster gangestering gets shot by the police its one of risks of the job.
Yes the police have screwed up their intial response and this inquest but Mark Duggan was a player and its a dangerpus game.
 
They jailed the bloke he brought the gun off and a gun was found at the scene
Said gun was used to pistol whip someone.
Either the met set up an elaborate conspriacy rather difficult to have the exact gun used to pistol whip some one then plant said weapon on someome you shoot.

If it was a "throw down" you have something much more generic and prefably eastern bloc as harder to trace . Met isnt the brazillian police they are not routinely operating a shoot to kill policy.
 
We don't have the death sentence in this country. And nobody is seriously proposing that it be introduced for receiving stolen goods and possession of weed, which are the only things Duggan has been convicted of.

Conceivably he could have been convicted of other things. But as with Smiley Culture, we will never know this. Because he is dead.
 
Unfortunatly hard stops can go wrong not only do the police have to get it right.
The victim has to cooperate which is kind of hard to do when several angry people are pointing guns at you.
Mark appeared to at least one copper to do the wrong thing :(
Nobody has developed a succesful stun weapon that works so lethal force is employed.

Having been in a situation where I was trying to get an armed man to obey my orders its not easy ( lost drunk cypriot hunter) dusk by secret british radar base during the first gulf war :facepalm:.
That was equal parts stupid and terrifying
 
The counsel to the inquest, Ashley Underwood, pointed out that Mr Duggan’s criminal record was relatively light considering he was a serious gang member.

Mr Duggan’s criminal record showed he had only been convicted of minor offences such handling stolen goods and possession of cannabis.

The detective inspector said the Mr Duggan had also been arrested for a number of other offences which do not appear on his record because he was not successfully convicted.
http://www.haringeyindependent.co.u...n__among_most_violent_men_in_Europe_/?ref=rss

So completely innocent law abding member of the public who the police put under survillence just becasue?
Or criminal they hadn't manage to put behind bars because everybody just loves to come forward to act as wittnesses in gangster cases?
Even if it was a good shoot the police screwed the resulting investigation up.
Yes I wouldn't believe one word of the police,guilt by association,don't think so.By the way I was friends of one of the Richardsons,nice bloke wouldn't hurt a fly but harassed because he was "one of them".
 
An independent witness says Mr Duggan was holding a phone in his had when shot. he also says he filmed the incident and has given the footage to the BBC. How come this has never been shown?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25197847
There has been a long running legal battle over this. I mentioned it a few months ago on the other thread, people other than the filmer have been threatened with arrests as well if i remember right
 
Gah! No search function.

Story was BBC were handed a production order by the police, they refused, won the case. Then, the week before the inquest started someone was named and ordered to name the person with the footage.
 
they are just going to bury this aren't they? Causual factor in the largest riots since toxteth, and they are going to sweep it under the carpet
 
Going off tweets, this film footage has been shown in court. Assuming this is the footage we're on about.
I can't see that it's been shown at all. There's him talking about the footage in the inquest but that's it. It's existence is real though. BBC police and him all attest to that. The BBC appear not to have grassed him up.
 
"It was a phone. Like I've always said since day one, it was a phone." - Witness B. Says #Duggan had his hands up, palms out to police.

Q: to clarify, did #Duggan have anything the size of (replica gun) in his hand?

A: No

If witnesses could tell the difference between a phone & a hand gun, & who were probably further away than armed plod were, what does this tell us?
 
Bloke says in his view he was shot whilst surrendering.

Police lawyer is now going to try and monster him. You say that you don't trust the police etc
 
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