Michael Sylvester drew attention to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDQCT0AJcw&feature=email
Darcus Howe says: "There is a young man called Mark Duggan… a few yards from where he lived police officers blew his head off." This kind of outburst does nothing to help a serious situation. Duggan was killed by a single bullet in the chest, not the head. It's a terrible incident, and is being fully investigated, as are – automatically – all incidents in which police firearms are discharged in Britain. In the normal course of events police do not carry guns. In this case the police were armed because they were members of Operation Trident, a special unit (initiated by members of the Black community in London concerned with gang-related crime) to deal with drug related crime and the spate of what are called Black-on-Black killings. The incident was part of an operation that involved the stopping of a minicab in which Mark Duggan was travelling. He was carrying a gun, which is illegal in Britain. The gun found in Duggan's possession has been found not to have been discharged. Other than that little is known about what precisely happened when the minicab was stopped, and the full story probably won't be known until the official investigation is completed. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ----------------------------------------- From: michael sylvester <msylves...@copper.net> Subject: Fw: Darcus Howe BBC News Interview On Riots Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:39:41 -0100 > > Darcus Howe BBC News Interview On Riots > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDQCT0AJcw&feature=email --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11840 or send a blank email to leave-11840-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
