Suck My Balls and Call Me Daddy.

Sorry I've been on the Stella and got a bit fighty. So you'll excuse me if I don't exactly set the right tone for the rest of this post.

Yesterday (9/8/11) Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) released their preliminary findings into the shooting of Mark Duggan which sparked the last four days of rioting in the UK. These findings can be read here;

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/Pages/pr_090811_dugganupdate.aspx

However the main points are;

On Thursday August 4th 2011 an intelligence led operation by London's Metropolitan Police's "Operation Trident" (SCD11) caused four officer's (3+Driver) from London's Metropolitan Police's firearms unit (CO19) to stop a taxi (Toyota Estima) containing Mark Duggan on Ferry Road, Tottenham at 18:15. As they surrounded the vehicle one of the CO19 officers discharged a 9mm jacketed round from his Heckler & Koch MP5 carbine. This round struck another CO19 officer in his radio. In fear of his life this or possibly the third officer discharged two 9mm jacketed rounds which struck Mark Duggan in his chest and arm. At 18:41 Mr Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene.

At the scene the police also recovered a BBM Bruni pistol which is assumed to belong to Mr Duggan. This weapon had not been fired but contained a single 9mm jacketed round in the magazine.

The only problem is that the Italian weapons manufacturer Bruni do not make a BBM pistol. What they do make is a range of blank firing and 8mm gas powered replica weapons which can look like any handgun you choose including a Beretta 92, a Walther PPK or a Colt.45. The Italian and Manchester City footballer Mario Bartoelli was recently photographed holding a Bruni Beretta 92 so we can only assume that the BBM was a reference to Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service which apparently played a crucial role in organising the riots. Bruni also make a range of sporting pistols including the "Olympic 6" revolver style starting pistol which was a bit of a hint that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were in London yesterday (9/9/11) to inspect preparations for the 2012 games.

Anyway we're still trying to work out a suitable punishment for the police officers involved in the Mark Duggan shooting. Ideally all of them should be tried for joint enterprise murder. However I think the best the law will allow is negligent manslaughter because the sad fact about guns is that even the best made of them - like a H&K MP5 - is that sometimes they do just go off because you've shaken them too hard.