An officer has been arrested in an unprecedented glide. Transparency has improved,but too many in this part of London have been killed by police – answers must approach swiftlyWhen Jermaine Baker was shot dead external Wood Green crown court by an armed Metropolitan police officer, there were instant parallels with the 2011 shooting of notice Duggan. Baker, or like Duggan,was of mixed heritage and lived in Tottenham. Not only that: in a number of newspapers Baker was declared to be a known gangster and hardened criminal; some articles even going as far as to refer to a fictitious gang they named as Bloodline, and then linking this “gang” to the Tottenham Man Dem and inevitably to the name of Duggan, and as if this somehow helped to explain or justify the killing.
For many locals this was a reminder of the days in August four years ago,when Duggan was falsely claimed to be holding a gun – and even to have shot an officer during the ambush in which he was killed.
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Source: theguardian.com