Shocking footage launches Met Police camera trial
Bloody scenes of domestic violence are being used to launch the most extensive trial in the UK of police body-worn cameras.
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The results of the police watchdog’s ballistics report in connection with the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham last Thursday are expected within 24 hours.
A report on the violence, which began in London following the shooting of Mark Duggan by police, made a number of recommendations and today Labour has said they were not listened to. They say that 10 years on, the risk of those scenes being repeated is “higher than ever”.
Files relating to three judge-led inquiries, including the police shooting of Mark Duggan, have gone missing in the post, the Ministry of Justice says.
After the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police is deemed lawful by a jury, Channel 4 News looks at the use of guns by UK police – and whether it’s more than in other police forces around the world.
Seven officers have been granted anonymity as witnesses in the trial of a man accused of passing an illegal firearm to Mark Duggan before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham almost a year ago.
After the funeral of Mark Duggan today, whose death sparked the riots a month ago, it is understood that police forces from Cornwall to Northumbria will finally leave the capital – ending four weeks of unprecedented extra support for the Metropolitan Police. Will the government pay up, or will the police foot the bill? FactCheck investigates.
Exclusive: Channel 4 News learns the police were warned of trouble after the shooting of Mark Duggan. But the police, worried about prejudicing an IPCC investigation, failed to reassure the community.
Tottenham MP David Lammy says it is “important our community remains calm” after a man was shot dead during an operation by police. A friend of Mark Duggan told Channel 4 News there may be unrest.
Black Lives Matter activists stage protests in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, stopping traffic from reaching Heathrow Airport by lying in the road.
Bloody scenes of domestic violence are being used to launch the most extensive trial in the UK of police body-worn cameras.
Thousands of students from across the UK meet in central London for a national day of protest, after police made 41 arrests during a student demonstration last week.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to challenge an anonymity order protecting the identities of police officers involved in a Taser incident where a 23-year-old factory worker died.
A review of an IPCC investigation into the death in custody of Sean Rigg is severely criticised for making a series of fundamental errors. But this is not the first time concerns have been raised.
Dramatic footage has been shown for the first time at a public inquiry into the police shooting of a suspected drug dealer seven years ago in north London.
Channel 4 News revisits four of the worst-hit parts of London to see how they have recovered since last year’s riots. See the before/after photos here. Roll your mouse over the images.