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ARMED POLICE IN London will wear video cameras to record their actions, the force said as it sought today to calm tensions over the inquest into the fatal shooting of a man by firearms officers.
Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe was due to meet with community leaders to discuss yesterday’s inquest verdict that the 2011 killing of suspected gangster Mark Duggan was lawful.
Duggan’s family reacted with fury to the verdict and vowed to continue fighting for justice for the father of six, whose death sparked nights of rioting across English cities.
Hogan-Howe welcomed the inquest jury’s decision but acknowledged the shooting had led to a “significant reduction in trust between London’s black communities” and police.
Efforts had been made to improve relations, he said, for example by reforming the use of stop and search so it no longer disproportionately targeted men from ethnic minorities.
“But we need to do more, much more, to improve our relationships with black Londoners,” he said.
Body-worn video cameras
He added: “We’ll begin a trial this year in which firearms officers are issued with body-worn video cameras to record the actions of officers and those they are dealing with.
“We want to see if this is an effective way to record evidence and ensure public confidence.”
Police are braced for protests in Tottenham, the deprived area of north London where Duggan was shot, but a demonstration late Wednesday dispersed without any trouble.
Supporters had reacted angrily to the inquest verdict after the jury concluded Duggan had had a gun when police stopped the taxi he was travelling in but threw it out of the vehicle seconds before he was gunned down by a police marksman.
The coroner in the inquest accepted that the jury was faced with a “stark problem” because police officers’ notes contradicted video evidence from the scene about the location of the gun.
Duggan’s brother shouted obscenities at jurors as they left court while other supporters screamed “murderers”.
‘Executed’
In highly-charged scenes outside the court, Duggan’s aunt, Carole, said he had been “executed” and vowed to fight the verdict, but on Thursday she called for calm.
“This has got to be dealt with the right way, through the courts,” she told BBC radio, saying the family wanted to see “no more demonstrations, no more violence”.
“We will have to fight this, go through the struggle peacefully, through the right channels, to get justice,” she said.
Police believe Duggan was a member of one of Europe’s most dangerous gangs, but he had never been convicted of a major offence.
- © AFP 2014.
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Yesssssssss now we get to see the scvmags being shot on Liveleak.
“Tottenham, a deprived area of north London” said the article.
Ok it’s not Kensington but a bit dismissive to call the entire area deprived I think myself
Your some Hunt…..
Tottenham isn’t all that bad, sure there are areas like Broadwater Farm and the High Road that are in serious need for regeneration but like everywhere in London, it has some nice areas alongside very run down areas.
More and more ways to tip the balance in favour of the criminal. Won’t be too long now until we just hand society over to them. I hope the criminals remember all the groups that made this possible, and be nice to them when they get a completely free run, somehow I doubt it.
It can only benefit the Police in the long run. It’ll give the public, the media and most importantly, the judiciary, the chance to see what it’s really like for cops having to deal with skumbags and skangers all the time.
Good idea once its a different agency who stores the footage in case any goes missing.
They did not do this in America and yes some footage had gone missing
The footage only went missing because they were stomping that guys head so much as he lay on the ground that the memory card fell out and went down a storm drain, other than that its a great system.
Should put them camera’s on our lot of corrupt filth
Mccann is your mother still around benburb st?
Hates the Guards.
Gets robbed.
Calls the Guards.
“McGuinness had told his debriefers in May 1998 that there were bags of imitation guns, wigs and balaclavas that the Flying Squad took out on operations to plant on suspects. They were used “in case an armed officer shot a robber and he wasn’t carrying a firearm” or to increase the chances of a prosecution. Everyone, he said, referred to it as a “first aid kit”. The point he made, as if this mitigated anything, was that only the guilty career criminal was fitted up this way.”
From “Untouchables: dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard” by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn (Bloomsbury, 2012)
http://goo.gl/ShNR6Q
Pity the other guy admitted giving the gun in the shoebox to Duggan shortly before he was stopped.
Similar video camera equipment should be issued to armed members of the Gardai and the PSNI.
RIP Mark Duggan Lest We Forget
Ye know he really doesn’t deserve to rip after all that happened
But with saying that when people RIP random strangers on here how do you know that “guy who went off a cliff in his car ” so to say wasn’t karma for raping or killing someone previously so carefull with the rip’s cause ye never know the Cnut might of deserved It
I don’t believe in karma and certainly don’t Believe in shooting to resolve issues. Some police officer needs to be brought to justice
So many red thumbs so little arguments. I know people fear the riots but riots and disorder will continue until the relationship between the people and police is restored. Restoration cannot happen without clarity, accountability and justice.
Kevin you say the”some Police Officer needs to be brought to justice” Why? A Jury decided that the shooting was lawful as did the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Therefore there is no case to answer.
Now now Mick a jurys decision is only correct if they convict the police man.
Mick, you will never understand that in Kevin’s utopia, there will be no Guns and men will settle their differences by smoking a few joints together.
Strange attitude for someone that works for a security company.
R.I.P
Great idea, has worked in the US. Has helped to improve relationships with the public.
My thoughts are with the public that live in such a horrid state.
I do not feel safe anymore walking the streets ..I am now going to wear my vest that I got home made
They can do any number of things like this but until the police are held fully accountable for their actions, it won’t bring about much needed change.
And if the cameras somehow record police brutality, the footage will be lost. Nothing new here, move along.
Emilio. And if the footage shows that Police actions were justified will you come on here and praise the Police?
No. Emilio is incapable of praise or comments of a positive nature.
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Who gave Louis Walshe a gun?
All cops are racist bigots
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