From today's Globe:
"That was the shooting by police last Thursday night of a father of four and alleged cocaine dealer named Mark Duggan. People in the north London community of Tottenham believe Mr. Duggan was shot without provocation while sitting in a car.
There has been a long history of heavy-handed policing, especially toward visible minorities, in Tottenham, and the shooting raised suspicions. A protest in support of Mr. Duggan that began on Friday degenerated into looting and rioting – although the anti-police protesters did not appear to participate in the rioting, and quickly denounced it"
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What? No more glib hockey talk? And where did your pal Reid go? I thought this was a serious law blog but clearly I've been wrong. Seems more like a forum for right wing idealogues to spout off all manner of foolishness. Is this a legal blog that takes legal issues seriously or merely a forum to advance your political aspirations?
By the way - painting all young people as hooligans isn't likely to win you the youth vote next time out.
Reid said...
Anonymous said...
The riots were sparked when police shot a man to death:
"Way to gloss over the facts. The police were trying to arrest him while he was in a cab, he shot at the police, they shot back, now he's dead."
I'll go back to the glib hockey talk -- because it's correct. My point here is that the genuine protesters of police actions were not rioting. The rioters were just using the earlier protests as an excuse.
RE: "I have known crooked lawyers. They exist...."
versus:
"And James Morton, president of the Ontario Bar Association --on whose executive, full disclosure, this writer sits --noted in a Post op-ed that the Maclean's piece was packed with "slurs, half truths and outright false statements," and that the magazine's cover recalled Nazi-era imagery." ( The rats fight back)
"On Monday, James Morton, president of the Ontario Bar Association, used these pages to describe our interview as a "recklessly erroneous" smear on lawyers. He insisted that lawyers are all that stand between civilization and tyranny, and compared us to Nazi propagandists. I don't want to engage in a contest of calumny with a major-leaguer like Mr. Morton, but I would like to challenge his dismissal of Mr. Slayton's characterization of the legal profession as "recklessly erroneous."
(University of Windsor - Biography - D. Tanovich, Law - National Post)
There is no evidence the London shooting victim fired at police.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/10/mark-duggan-handgun-ipcc-video
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