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But
Seems like a waste of Police resources going after a small time crook.
The Cops fucked up over-reacted and shot an unarmed man in haste than tried to cover it up.
See the LEGAL INQUEST Info / Evidence below BEFORE you RUSH to Judgement.
Two officers testified he had a weapon. The forensic evidence did not support that, and other expert evidence suggested key parts of the police account were incorrect.
The jury decided Duggan threw the gun before police confronted him, and did not have it in his hand when shot.
Despite the verdict of lawful killing, a series of decisions by the Metropolitan police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which investigates police shootings, damaged public confidence.
One informed Met source said: "It was death by a thousand fuckups."
The operation that culminated in Duggan being shot, Operation Dibri, was run by the Met's Trident unit, which investigates gun crime in London's black community. It relied on intelligence from the now-defunct Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) about his alleged activities. Part of it was based on the bugging of Duggan's phone.
Aged 29, Duggan had just two relatively minor criminal convictions, one for possession of cannabis and one for handling stolen goods.
Source...the Legal Inquest as reported by the Guardian.
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