Mark Duggan shooting

[David Johnson]

It's been the good and the bad this last week with regard to our police.

On the one hand, we have had two brave, unarmed policewomen slaughtered just answering a burglary call. On the other hand, we have some very dodgy details emerging re. the Mark Duggan shooting which sparked off the Tottenham riots.

At the trial of the guy accused of giving Duggan an illegal firearm, a policeman who was there when Duggan was shot, described how Duggan pulled out a gun. Strangely, in the short form report he supplied soon after the incident, there was no mention whatsoever of Duggan pulling the gun out. Wouldnt that be the key thing you would mention in a short report about how a suspect got killed?

The officer also told the court he omitted the fact Mr Duggan was armed from his initial statement after meeting lawyers and Police Federation representatives. When asked if this was a deliberate act, he said: "I don't know."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19662526


Secondly, a police firearms officer who attended the police shooting of Mark Duggan was told not to make a statement for more than three months

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19647154

There seems to be an element of getting the story straight before making statements about who exactly did what.

Thirdly there is the issue about the police seals on the vehicle Duggan travelled in being broken.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19704020

This is all beginning to look rather dodgy.

[number 6]

Mark Duggan wasn't the sought of bloke you would take home to meet your mum. But he clearly wasn't armed when the police shot him to death and didn't deserve what he got.

[number 6]

sort* of bloke

[steve56]

More Riots after this i bet!

[Robches]

No, it's too wet to riot at the moment.

[one eyed jack]

So tempting to blurt out... Sorry, comment on this but I'm not beholden to share what I've been told by someone important to this case but all I'll say is this....

David Johnson, you are on the right track to think something is awry about all this.

[Arginald Valleywater]

This is a perfect argument of why our Police really shouldn't be armed.

[one eyed jack]

I wouldnt go as far as that Arginald. I do understand the police also have it rough out there too but they should be held accountable for bad decisions ie Jean Charles Menezes and Mark Duggan but the likes of Raoul Moat...Had it coming to him

The two officers that were killed recently were a good case in point but seriously, how often does that happen?