Mark Duggan found to have no gun but jury still says he was lawfully killed

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Originally Posted by Roscoe Conkling

The jury of ordinary men and women voted unanimously that the police search

" was concluded in a location and in a way which minimised to the greatest extent possible recourse to lethal force and that Duggan had the gun with him in the taxi immediately before the stop and that he threw away the firearm on the grass area where it was later found. "


This is Joe Public mind you not the police or the Government.
Duggan was a thug, a gangster and a drug-dealer.

He got what was coming to him.

I agree. He was a thug & a criminal & he DID have a gun, he just threw it out the car window! Just because he didn't have it in his hand... No sympathy at all, if you want to play with guns then you have to take the risk of getting shot...

Originally Posted by P London

All of this just goes to show that racism is still live and well.

Don't be so ridiculous, I hate it when people play the race card whenever something happens to a black person He DID have a gun & he was a criminal, if he had been white the exact same things would have happened in that situation...

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His family acted just like thugs when they threatened members of the jury after the verdict. Not what you would expect from a "law abiding family."

I read that Duggan had acquired the gun to avenge the death of his cousin Kevin Easton who was stabbed to death in East London in 2011. Seems like violence is endemic in that family.