London Police Shooting Of A Black Man Triggers Violent Riots In Britain

Daily Mail: The 'gangsta' gunman killed in shoot-out with police whose death sparked riots

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Staring at the camera and making a gun symbol with his fingers, this is the dead 'gangster' whose death sparked the Tottenham riots.
Mark Duggan, 29, was in a car being followed by police during a covert operation on Thursday.
But Duggan, a known offender from London’s notorious Broadwater Farm Estate, became aware that he was being followed and opened fire on the officers.
He shot the officer from Scotland Yard’s elite firearms squad CO19 in the side of his chest with a handgun.
The bullet lodged in the police radio that the undercover officer was carrying in a side pocket.
Armed officers shot the gunman dead seconds later.
Residents said at least three shots were fired when officers swooped during the evening rush hour at about 6.15pm.
The Evening Standard quoted the dead man's girlfriend Simone Wilson, 29, as saying she was 'shocked' to learn her boyfriend of 13 years was carrying a gun.
A witness said the shooting took place near a bus stop and medics tried to save the man’s life as he lay in the street.
One witness said the victim was an ‘elder’ from the Broadwater Farm Estate, a short distance away.


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Analysis:

My "I hope he is not Black" sentiment was not triggered because I assumed that there are too few Blacks in the UK for this to be a Black man.  I was wrong.

Further it seems that "Scotland Yard" has their own "Red Dog Unit" (a reference to the special forces team from the City of Atlanta Police).   They target guns in Black communities, according to the following article:

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said the bullet and a non-police-issue handgun found at the scene had been sent for forensic tests.

IPCC investigators believe two shots were fired by an armed officer. A spokesman for the IPCC said that at around 6.15pm on Thursday officers from Operation Trident, the Metropolitan police unit that deals with gun crime in London's black communities, with officers from the Specialist Firearms Command (CO19), stopped a minicab to carry out a pre-planned arrest.

"Shots were fired and a 29-year-old man, who was a passenger in the cab, died at the scene," said the spokesman. Photographic and forensic examination was continuing, and a search for CCTV footage was continuing, the spokesman said. A postmortem examination would be carried out as soon as possible.

Operation Trident

From Wikipedia

Operation Trident or Trident, is a Metropolitan Police Service unit set up to investigate and inform communities of gun crime in London's black community, with special attention being placed on shootings relating to the illegal sale of drugs. The initiative was set up in March 1998 by members of the black community following a series of shootings in the London boroughs of Lambeth, and Brent. The Chairman of the Trident Independent Advisory Group (IAG) is Claudia Webbe.
The perceived importance of Trident's mission was such that it was established as a dedicated Operational Command Unit called the Trident Operational Command Unit[1] within the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Directorate. In 2004 it expanded with the formation of Operation Trafalgar which investigates all other non-fatal shootings in London.
The aim of the campaign is reached via gun amnesties and adverts encouraging people to phone Crimestoppers with information related to gun crime. These adverts appear in the media, nightclubs, on petrol pumps, phone boxes and on the radio.
As part of Specialist Crime Directorate, Trident is also known as SCD8 and more recently officers within the command have referred to themselves as "the Ocho".
As of 2004 16 of the initiative's 300 officers were themselves black.[2]
In 2006, Trident officers raided the home of vintage gun enthusiast Mick Shepherd, seizing much of his collection