The early rumours were right the Mark Duggan shooting was a plain old assassination. MI5 swiped a gun from a police evidence locker and passed it on to one of their drug dealers. That drug dealer - on threat of imminent violence - gave it to Duggan and ordered him to transport it to a certain place at a certain time knowing that he didn't own a car so would have to take a taxi. MI5 then gave one of the police officers in the arrest team a dodgy H&K MP5 carbine that would go off if you shook it too hard. The sad news is that I genuinely think Duggan was chosen at random - a 'crime of opportunity' I think it's known as.
Legally there is very little that can be done to the individual police officers on the scene because the reason why they come in on mass at firearms arms stops is that if they can totally dominate the situation through speed and physical aggression it (normally) significantly reduces the risk that they will actually have to shoot someone or that a gun will just go off accidentally.
00:20 on 4/8/12.
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