The strange thing is, for those of you that have been paying attention over the past few years, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise, especially since the officers that apparently assassinated Duggan were members of "CO19 -- or the Metropolitan police's Central Operations Specialist Firearms Command.
Remember Jean Charles De Menezes in 2005? The Brazilian electrician who was followed through the streets of London, into a tube station and then, without any warning, shot 7 times in the head while he was pinned to the floor, for no good reason? CO19 officers. (You might also remember that the CO19 officers tried to portray de Menezes as a "suicide bomber' by fabricating details such as the claim that he ran and was wearing a "bulky jacket'.)
Remember the Forest Gate raid? No? June 2nd 2006, 250 heavily armed British police descended on a house in East London where, it was alleged, "Muslim terrorists' were manufacturing chemical weapons to unleash on innocent Londoners. During the raid, one of two brothers living in the house was shot and both were arrested. At a press conference after their release, the brothers (aged 23 and 20) described their ordeal.
"When Kahar heard the front door being smashed down, he assumed it was a burglary and left his bedroom to come down stairs, where, at a distance of "two or three feet', a policeman opened fire without issuing a warning or identifying himself. "We had eye contact and he shot me straight away," recalled Kahar. The bullet entered his chest and exited through his shoulder, sparing his life by inches. "I was begging him, "Please, please, I can't breathe,' and he just kicked me in my face. He kept on saying, "Shut the f*ck up'". one of the officers slapped me on the face " I thought that they're going to either shoot me again, or they're going to start shooting my brother." Koyair, the brother, was also sworn at and beaten. Their elderly mother was dragged out in handcuffs. Their sister, Humeya Kalam, told the BBC, "I heard doors being smashed, windows being broken. I woke up, opened my door and saw a person dressed all in black, gun pointing towards me." Meanwhile, the police raided the house next door, where the residents received similar rough treatment."
Yet again, an attempt was made to smear the two victims by claiming first that Kahar had been shot after he had struggled with officers, then that he had actually been shot by his brother during a scuffle, and then that a police officer had "accidentally' discharged his gun as a result of wearing thick gloves. It was also stated that the brothers had attended militant Islamist demonstrations and that Kahar's wound was superficial. Not surprisingly, all of these were outright lies, and the two brothers were entirely innocent, but even more shocking was the subsequent revelation that the police informant who provided the information that led to the raid, was an "utter incompetent" with an IQ of 69.
Guess which branch of the Metropolitan police these officers came from? CO19
Anyway, I hope all British people feel a lot safer knowing that they have a state sanctioned assassination squad ready and willing to "help', whenever the spirit (or their trigger fingers) move them.
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