09-01-2014, 04:51 PM
Lets not forget that Mark Duggan was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, at one point apparently one of the 50 worst gangsters in Europe, a member of one of the worst gangs in London, and someone who had been implicated in numerous shootings and murders however had largely escaped conviction.
Now Jurys are a funny thing, Potentially it only takes one or 2 strong minded people and opinionated people on one to help sway those who maybe aren't so mentally strong.
I personally don't believe for a second that he threw the gun before being shot, the officers say they saw a gun and the only things that say otherwise are a witness (who sounds quite anti police in the TV interviews) who was 10 floors up and across the other side of a busy road (probably 50m away then) and saw something in his hand but is certain it was a mobile phone and wasn't a gun, someone with no firearms training. So tell me from 50m away could you be certain if I had a gun or a mobile phone in a split second? Also the pathologist says he couldn't of thrown the gun 20ft after being shot with his injuries but you forget how short a distance 20ft is, its 6 meters or about 3 and a bit times the height of a tall person like me and not only is it a short distance but from the height he held the gun at and then the drop into the park and then going down hill its actually 20ft over a 5-6ft drop.
I think the family are on a witch hunt and wont stop till they either get paid off or someone other than Mark Duggan gets held responsible for his death and punished.
The thing that is bugging my is that his supporters after claiming that he was a lovely chap who wasn't in a gang they are claiming that he was executed and I'd love to ask them this "You are aware that the Police in this country only kill about one person a year so if Mark is such a nice chap and not a real criminal then why would the Police pick him to execute rather than someone who causes real problems?"
Now Jurys are a funny thing, Potentially it only takes one or 2 strong minded people and opinionated people on one to help sway those who maybe aren't so mentally strong.
I personally don't believe for a second that he threw the gun before being shot, the officers say they saw a gun and the only things that say otherwise are a witness (who sounds quite anti police in the TV interviews) who was 10 floors up and across the other side of a busy road (probably 50m away then) and saw something in his hand but is certain it was a mobile phone and wasn't a gun, someone with no firearms training. So tell me from 50m away could you be certain if I had a gun or a mobile phone in a split second? Also the pathologist says he couldn't of thrown the gun 20ft after being shot with his injuries but you forget how short a distance 20ft is, its 6 meters or about 3 and a bit times the height of a tall person like me and not only is it a short distance but from the height he held the gun at and then the drop into the park and then going down hill its actually 20ft over a 5-6ft drop.
I think the family are on a witch hunt and wont stop till they either get paid off or someone other than Mark Duggan gets held responsible for his death and punished.
The thing that is bugging my is that his supporters after claiming that he was a lovely chap who wasn't in a gang they are claiming that he was executed and I'd love to ask them this "You are aware that the Police in this country only kill about one person a year so if Mark is such a nice chap and not a real criminal then why would the Police pick him to execute rather than someone who causes real problems?"