Duggan Case

[C.A.R.]

An unnecessary death is always tragic, and by the sounds of it his death could have been avoided. I belive it was a mistake on the armed officers part, a slightly itchy trigger finger, but I guess these things happen, and at least the guy that caught the bullet was actually a previously armed criminal, and not a bystander.

The death of this particular criminal was merely the straw that broke the donkeys back, and caused the riots. The riots began in protest of the fact that black people are unfairly treated by the police in London, and larger parts of the UK. And clearly this was the case, as the police have taken steps against this, such as reducing the number of 'random' stop searches.

I'll get flamed for this, but the riots (pre-looting) were almost a breath of fresh air to me. We're so passive in this country, everyone is resigned to the fact the government/police do whatever they want and that there's nothing we can do about it, that seeing people actually take action was incredible.

This is the crazyness I was referring to in the opening post. I'm baffled dude!

How is it having 'an itchy trigger finger'? Were you there? Is your understanding of events different from that of the Jury who were presented with a wealth of evidence we did not see? He wasn't 'previously armed' he was armed and dangerous. As was mentioned in another forum, the Police in this country are responsible for the death of 1 person per year. If they wanted to kill someone, there's a long queue of people who were in front of Mark Duggan.

As for the riots, they are largely un-connected. They gave criminals a (poor) excuse to commit the attrocities and crimes which they would otherwise only have considered doing, but because they had this backwards 'reasoning' in their minds they were OK with it, and fighting back against society.

Damaging public property, eventually leading to blatant looting, is this really the way to prove your point that you're not to be profiled as a criminal?

I will say nothing of the colour of peoples' skin who decided they would participate in the rioting, but regardless, if you're protesting against being deliberately targeted / profiled as a criminal, the last thing you should do is perform criminal acts. Which is exactly what they did.

Being so easily tipped over the edge into a criminal lifestyle due to the largely irrelevant killing of a dangerous gangster proves only one thing; that the Police were right to target you as a potential threat. Because you just showed that you are one.

D'oh