Incitement..?

Stafford Scott clearly wants to see another riot:

Tottenham's black community has been living under the cloud of PC Keith Blakelock's death for 28 years.

Note the passive term there, ‘death’.

The killing of Cynthia Jarrett …

Woah! She wasn't 'killed'. She died of a heart attack.

Each time the Met reopens the Blakelock investigation, the wounds are reopened. While the police and Blakelock's family speak about the need to see justice for the officer, we are left wondering what justice looks like: we have not seen anything resembling it.

That's because you have a vastly different view of justice to anyone else.

Yes, Blakelock's murder was awful and tragic, but so was the death of Cynthia Jarrett. Had she lived she would have celebrated her 76th birthday this week, yet there are no headlines recalling how she died, no media clamour for her killers to be brought to justice.

Once again; she wasn't killed. She died of a heart attack. Given she was approximately the size of a young bull hippo, she might just as easily have died going to the shops for a light snack (of everything on the shelves).

The police had their opportunity to find Blakelock's killers during their first investigation, but their corrupt methods and ineptitude meant that they blew it.

Yeah, well, I don't recall you bleating about that when it came to the killing of St Stephen Lawrence...

While the force may be hoping the country has forgotten, the black community of Tottenham certainly has not. It fuels our community's mistrust of the police and judiciary, and has been passed down a generation. It is one of the reasons that Tottenham burned again in 2011. Ultimately a community that cannot expect justice will always be prone to outbreaks of outrage.

What is it with 'Guardian' columnists and their salivating desire for riots?

Stafford Scott Clutches At Straws…

Unsurprisingly, the media focused on Hutchinson-Foster's conviction for supplying the gun to Duggan. Publicity over the trial has helped to implant firmly in the public's mind that Duggan was armed and dangerous when shot in Tottenham, north London, by Metropolitan police officers.

Well, yes. Because he was. That’s a bit of a problem for your campaign, isn't it? Not one that big booklet of stock phrases will help with, either.

Hmmm. How to turn it around…?

But some important facts have escaped scrutiny. For we now know that Peter Osadebay, Hutchinson-Foster's pistol-whipping victim, immediately informed Hackney police after he had been assaulted. His allegation was supported by CCTV footage, which clearly shows Hutchinson-Foster with a firearm intimidating and then assaulting Osadebay.

Yes. And..?

So it is now clear that the police had a golden opportunity to remove an identified gunman and a firearm off of the streets but somehow managed not to do so.

Oh. Right. I see. Well, that’s one fallback position to take, I suppose…

And this is all the more shocking because the police have a special unit, Trident, established specifically to deal with gun crime in the black community. Given that Hutchinson-Foster was a black man brandishing a gun in broad daylight in Hackney, a Trident "hotspot" borough with a long history of gun and gang activity, it's remarkable if Osadebay's assault claim was not followed up.

I get the feeling it’s not such an uncommon occurrence in that area, though.

And are you really suggesting that the police should have avoided the charges of 'harassment of black men' by, umm, harassing black men some more?

If local officers had followed up and arrested Hutchinson-Foster, the gun might never have reached Mark Duggan, if indeed it did; he would still be alive today; and Tottenham, London, and cities across the country would not have exploded in flames that summer.

Masterful! It’s clearly all the fault of the police after all!

During the trial and retrial of Hutchinson-Foster we heard much about Mark Duggan yet there was nothing to suggest that the police could have avoided the entire incident.

I see nothing in your article to suggest that Duggan could have avoided it, either.

Lame, CiF. Very, very lame.

You Can Safely Ignore These Objections...

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has come under pressure to order Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to...

Pull her finger out and get a grip on London's street crime epidemic?

...stop plans for officers to patrol residential areas of the city with their guns on show.

By which utter morons, may I ask?

Len Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly (Ed: Translation: career obstructive guttersnipe) and former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the body which used to oversee the Met, said: “Now the police with guns are in cars, in central London because of the terrorist threat, or for a specific operation.

“Police walking around a [council] estate with guns is a crazy thing. It creates a different atmosphere. It does not make sense and has not been thought through.”

Stafford Scott of the Monitoring Group (Ed: Translation - fulltime taxpayer funded race-baiter), which campaigns against what it sees as police injustices, said: “The more oppressive the policing and state response is, the more the violence will increase. These kids have been bullied by the police and its partners for most of their lives.

“They cannot fight the state so they fight each other. The police need to identify those who are a real threat and not simply use the violence as an excuse to oppress large sections of the community.”

Ah. The usual suspects. Listening to them is what got us into this state. Try something new.