Yet another black male killed in Ferguson.

But he didn't have it in his possession at the time he was shot, nor did the police have evidence he'd got the gun until after they'd killed him.

Even if he wouldn't have gotten a gun at all and he'd just gone to get his groceries, the police would still have shot him dead.

But he didn't have it in his possession at the time he was shot, nor did the police have evidence he'd got the gun until after they'd killed him.

Even if he wouldn't have gotten a gun at all and he'd just gone to get his groceries, the police would still have shot him dead.

Thank you darling

how on earth do you know that ?

All of them

Describes you brilliantly doesn't it?

So selling untaxed cigarettes, or playing with a bb gun justifies them being executed?

You really should be. This conversation was obviously out of your depth, hence the lack of coherent rebuttals and generic ramblings.

Merry Christmas May you have a wonderful, racially progressive time with your unfortunate mixed race wife.

Because the police didn't see a gun when they shot him?

He got out of a taxi and was gunned down. He'd picked up the gun during the duration of that journey (which the police presumed but didn't know) but didn't have it on him when he was outside the taxi.

He was shot based on police intel he was going to get a gun. Whilst this intel was correct, if it was incorrect and he'd just gone shopping they would have stilled pulled over the taxi and shot him. He was dead the moment he got out of the taxi, gun or no gun.

They wouldn't send armed police to arrest someone they didn't think was armed and dangerous ...

The police were notified that he had a gun in his possession ... he grabbed something from his jacket and the policeman shot.

During that split second between getting something from his jacket and producing it, the police officer had to decide what to do .. and Duggan was shot.

From what I heard he pulled a gun on a cop. Not that it matters, people will have already decided what happened as soon as they hear cop shoots black man

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Whether i think the police officer intentionally murdered him or not isn't really relevant.

A un-armed member of the public was shot dead in broad daylight on a assumption by the shooter he was armed. I'm saying if as a police officer you shoot dead an un-armed member of the public, especially after initially claiming he pulled out a gun and shot at you and you returned fire, then questions need asking.

Whether it was a mistake or not whilst at work i'm held accountable for my mistakes and i believe police officers should be as well, rather than just always being given the benefit of the doubt and never charged for murdering people even if its clear it was un-justified.

this is just rubbish. the police are not terrorists. they would have had a good reason to open fire.

Was this the unarmed guy who tried to wrestle the police officers gun from the aforementioned police officer.

But they didn't? He was unarmed, and they tried to claim he shot at them when he didn't even have a gun.

Like said, the moment he left that taxi he was dead. You've made no argument other than its "rubbish", so i'll just presume you don't have one. I'm not saying they are terrorists, but i'm saying in the Duggan case they jumped the gun and killed him based on a in-correct assumption.

how do you know that the police account is incorrect, apart from disliking the police ?

Because they shot him saying he had a gun on them and opened fire on them, when it later was proved he didn't even have a gun on him?

Its pretty simple really.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officer-saved-as-bullet-hit-his-radio-in-gunfight-2332670.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8687804/Tottenham-riot-bullet-lodged-in-officers-radio-at-time-of-Mark-Duggan-death-was-police-issue.html

One minutes they are hero's saved by their radio from Duggan who apparently shot at them. Next minute we're finding out he didn't even have a gun nether mind shoot.

"V53", the officer who shot and killed Duggan, testified that Duggan was still holding a gun after both of the shots were fired, saying his eyes were "glued to the gun."

I am inclined to believe a trained firearms officer.

No? He wasn't?

I was referring to Mark Duggan, i'm guessing you didn't read the other post and presumed i'm referring to Mike Brown?

No, the initial reason the police gave for shooting was that Duggan had shot at them first. They even presented a police radio with a bullet in it claiming it was proof Duggan had shot at them, only for it to turn out it was a police issue bullet.

Whether they thought he was armed and dangerous or not, at the moment he was killed he was not armed nor dangerous, so the police made a mistake which cost a person their life. Its easier to justify when its not your or a loved one's life though i'm sure.

Interesting how, the 'white' people on this thread insist that we wait for more evidence to clear up but still put the blame on the black boy regardless of the fact that the facts haven't cleared up yet.

Not on CCTV or anything.