by FlipMode » August 13th, 2011, 10:33 am
[quote="Azdgari"].
@Fip, what crime did he commit? I would be wary of that mindset you got there. Life is very complicated and a great deal of crimes are not committed selfishly. Then again, if he was like a murderer, I get where you're coming from. :3[/quote]
Well to answer both your questions, Mark Duggan was a known drug dealer and wanted for other offences beside that. So no one really knows yet how far his crimes went, but he was at the very least a known drug dealer. And yeah I know some crimes even such as drug dealing is done to pay for the family and stuff like that, but it does not for me change the fact that person was a criminal.
Okay maybe he did not deserve death, but he would have spent the rest of his life in jail most likely.
So on the day he was shot, he was in the back of a taxi, police were already approaching the car, and then one of the police officers was shot (the bullet lodged itself into his radio, what are the odds?)
Which obviously made them return fire, because police guns here use different kinds of ammo, meant to wound not kill... But it hit him square in the head, and he died.
Then it was later revealed, the bullet that was fired at the police officer, upon examination was issued from a police weapon, meaning they shot him when he could quite have easily just come quietly. Hence the riots. He did however, have a weapon in his sock when he was found dead.