Four days running and riots in London, England, there are no signs of abating. The shooting of a black community in Tottenham mulatto named Mark Duggan (29), referred to as the source of all this mess.
Mark Duggan may be a nobody in the society of London. The man who is familiarly called 'Starrish Mark' has a fiancee named Semone Wilson, but Mark already has four children.
However, Thursday, August 4, 2011 to be a fateful day for all parties, both the police and citizens. At that time police were holding what they called Operation Trident. This is an operation to suppress the use of firearms to criminals on the black community in London.
As reported by Sky News edition of August 4, precisely in the way of Ferry Lane, Tottenham, in the evening, police stopped a car to check the driver. Mark was in the car.
No one has explained how the inspection process takes place. But then unknown Mark carried a gun and bang! The shootout occurred at 18:15 local time. Mark only the bullets of police in charge of radio communications, but not so with Mark. He's dying because of police bullets penetrated his body.
Who shot first? All parties have their respective versions. But clearly, the family blames police.
"Something is wrong and they tried to cover it. If Mark hold the weapons, why not just hand shot? I try to ask the police did not say anything. The police have not told her parents," said Semone Wilson told The Sun on Tuesday (08/09/2011 ).
Semone defend Mark. According to him, his girlfriend for 13 years was carrying a weapon just in case, because his cousin was stabbed to death at a nightclub in March 2011.
Mark's death and then angered other black people in Tottenham. Approximately 300 people took to the streets in acts of peaceful-peaceful initially only on Saturday (6 / 8) night. But the action turned into rioting and looting. The unrest led to riots one another.
When the riots spread to various corners of London, the offender is no longer just black people, but also white and other citizens from different backgrounds to get involved.
British media seem to be careful not to mention the riots in London is pitched racial. However, a variety show on television is hard to cover up allegations.
The unrest this time directly remind the citizens of London with a similar riot in the decade of the 1980s. The relationship of black people with the same cop bad as that time. Pockets of unrest were exactly the same which is the area of blacks from Tottenham, Birmingham to Liverpool.
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