Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policingPosted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United Kingdom on 2015-06-09 01:06Z by Steven |
Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing
The Guardian
2015-06-07
Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter
 Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian |
Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in London’s black communities
Mark Duggan’s family, relatives of other black men killed in custody, and one of the UK’s most senior black lawyers have called for a public inquiry into policing in Britain.
Duggan was shot twice on 4 August 2011 in Tottenham, north London, after 11 specialist firearms officers stopped the minicab he was in on suspicion that he had an illegal firearm. While no gun was found on him, a handgun in a sock was discovered on grassland about four metres (14ft) from his body.
Campaigners are calling for an investigation after it was reported that the man who passed a gun to Duggan before he was killed by police in Tottenham was not arrested weeks earlier, despite evidence he was known to officers and had used the same weapon in another attack.
Following a three-and-a-half-year investigation into the killing of Duggan, 29, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) cleared armed officers of any wrongdoing, saying it was likely that he was in the process of throwing away a handgun when he was shot…
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