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Mark Duggan inquest key evidence: Was he really armed? Were the police under threat?

Publié par Clifford Armion le 01/09/2014

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Paul Peachey

To the police on the job, it started with a "textbook" stop of a minicab carrying a dangerous gangster. Three police cars forced Mark Duggan's vehicle to pull over following intelligence that he had picked up a gun from a criminal associate.
Half-an-hour later, the 29-year-old was dead, fatally wounded by two police bullets after he got out of the car. The authorities wrongly said that he had been hit in an exchange of fire.
Two nights later, Tottenham in North London was alight and riots started to spread across the country, costing millions of pounds in damages, devastating communities and swamping the criminal justice system.
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" Mark Duggan inquest key evidence: Was he really armed? Were the police under threat?", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2014. Consulté le 24/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/mark-duggan-inquest-key-evidence-was-he-really-armed-were-the-police-under-threat-