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goodbye from me. On BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
heading off to the discount stores. Our Business Correspondent | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Tonight on BBC London, Mark Duggan Our Business Corresponden To | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Tonight on BBC London, Mark Duggan was lawfully killed. There were | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
angry scenes outside court, and many people we have spoken to in | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Tottenham don't accept the Jews verdict. That cannot actually takes | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
away the little faith we had in the system. How can you claim and with | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
no gun in his hand? The Met has decided its firearms officers will | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
now wear body cameras. We will ask if that is the best way to get more | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Londoners to trust the police. Also tonight, flooding in Surrey as the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Thames burst its banks. Where would the people affected? It was really | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
scary, the water was waist high, as you can see I am wet now. And deep | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
underground, London's newest tube station is starting to take shape. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
`` Tube. Good evening. Mark Duggan's death | :01:02. | :01:17. | |
sparked the worst rioting in a generation and shone a spotlight on | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
how London's police. Rates. Today, as we have been hearing, a jury | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
decided that Duggan was lawfully killed when police stopped the | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
minicab he was in back in 2011. They also said it was more likely than | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
not that he had thrown a gun from the taxi just before he was killed. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
But they said the police haven't done enough to gather intelligence | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
before the operation. However, the jury did conclude that the officers | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
stopped the minicab in the best way possible to try and avoid killing | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Mark Duggan. Let's start our coverage tonight in Tottenham with | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
our special correspondent, Kurt Barling. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The jury reached its verdict of eight to two that it was a lawful | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
killing. Here in Tottenham there has been a lot of confusion about that | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
verdict, and also a sense that many people simply don't access did. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
`` don't access it. We came for justice today. We are | :02:19. | :02:35. | |
leaving with a great injustice. We are not going to hide, we don't feel | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
we've got anything to hide for. The people who do need to hide, they | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
know who they are. They cannot believe that this has been the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
outcome. No gun in his hand, and yet he was shot. Murdered. He was | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
executed, and we still believe that, and we are going to fight until we | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
have no breath in our body for Mark, for his children, and for those | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
other deaths in custody that have had nothing. We are not giving up, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
no justice! He had an honest and reasonable | :03:10. | :03:22. | |
belief... Assistant commissioner Mark rally | :03:23. | :03:51. | |
being heavily shouted down by protesters at the High Court in | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
central London. Talking to people in Tottenham tonight, it is hard to | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
find anyone who actually agrees with this lawful killing verdict. I feel | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
that conclusion is wrong. I mean, no`one can be killed lawfully on the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
road. I mean, it's depends on circumstances sometimes, but I say | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
no, I don't buy it. It don't really surprise me. I think the police been | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
getting away with a lot of things for so many years. And they should | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
do something about it. Mark Duggan was a friend of mine, I have spent | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
11 months in prison for the riots, and I will do another 11 months, 11 | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
years. It was not lawful at all, we know that. I personally believe he | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
was set up, and I don't think they have the right to take his life | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
away, and yet again the police have got away with something that they | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
were wrong for doing. Of course, the jury itself, a jury | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
of ten, were a jury of ordinary Londoners. They sat through four | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
months of evidence, they listened to the evidence intently, I was in | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
court many a day when they had to listen to all sorts of things from | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
over 100 witnesses. They have come to what they believe is the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
common`sense conclusion by eight to two that Mark Duggan was lawfully | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
kill. I am joined by Ken Hines, on the day after he was shot, Mark | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Duggan, you were here at the police station leading a vigil. Having | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
listened to the verdict, knowing the case, are you confused like many | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
other people about this verdict? I am beyond confused, I am shocked, | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
mystified, horrified that such a verdict could come about. You know, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
it doesn't make sense. Since when can a person not have a gun on him | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
and be shot dead and everything be lawful. These were Londoners who | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
shot through this, ordinary Londoners who listened intently to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
the evidence. Can they be wrong? What I can go to is that I have read | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
the transcript, I spent some time at the inquest. I can only go on what I | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
have heard and what I have learned, and I have learned that this was an | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
open and shut case of unlawful killing. Don't get me wrong, whether | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Mark had a weapon in the taxi, he did not have that in his hand at the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
time he was shot. He was not posing a threat. What does this tell you | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
about the elation shipped between police and young people when they | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
are stopped by police? `` the relationship. It is no surprise that | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
people run away from the police, because that is something I have | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
been fighting for some time so, so what I would say to you is that this | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
is just going to put the relationship between young black men | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
and the police further back. It will cause me and people like myself to | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
do a lot more work to try to bring back some sort of peace and | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
harmony. Ten, thank you very much. The IPCC still have to do the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
investigation. For the moment, as you can see in Tottenham, there is | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
still a lot of uncertainty and confusion about that verdict. | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
Central to the verdict was how much they believed the version of events | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
given by the firearms officers involved in the shooting of Mark | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Duggan. In a few months, the Metropolitan Police firearms teams | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
will start wearing video cameras to record the actions and use as | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
potential evidence. Guy Smith has this report. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
Body cameras were first used in Britain by Devon and Cornwall | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
police. Officers routinely given video equipment to gather evidence. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
It can protect them if a complaint is made when attending an incident, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
in this case domestic violence. But the technology can also hold the | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
police to account for their actions. Recent high`profile cases, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
like plebgate, have highlighted the potential benefits. And today's | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
conclusion on the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham is another | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
example. From April, firearms officers with the Met are expected | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
to be using them in operations. Peter is a former chief constable | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
and head of the now`defunct national police improvement agency. I don't | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
think we should be too squeamish about this. This is the application | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
of the latest technology into an area of the highest conflict in | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
policing. It makes absolute sense for the police to be videoing what | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
they are doing. I think you officers will be frightened of it. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
This is a real`life situation in the right of states, where officers are | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
routinely armed. A suspect is warned ten times to put his weapon down. `` | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
in the United States. He doesn't, and he's fatally wounded. The video | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
was later used to clear the officer of any wrongdoing. The video was | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
viewed by the prosecuting attorney here, and they were able to see | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
first`hand all of the necessary evidence that we needed in order to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
exonerate Brandon as far as any wrongdoing, any criminal wrongdoing. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Yet back in the UK, Peter Nauru warns about how body cameras may be | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
deployed in practice. If the commander was seeing the live feeds | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
of a picture from a firearms officer and was then able, effectively, to | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
direct the officer to take a shot, that would be taking away from the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
individual accountability of the officer and would change the whole | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
firearms, and seem very thematically. This criminologist | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
also has reservations. I can see why a camera might be thought of as a | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
way to verify events. I can also see that there may be blind spots, there | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
may be interpretations, questions about how the data is stored and | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
used. I am concerned about mission creep, surveillance creep. Mark | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Duggan's death was highly controversial and led to the most | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
violent disturbances in a generation. Recording on camera | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
exactly what happened that day in August two years ago may have helped | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
explain why armed police felt it necessary to shoot a man dead. | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
Well, joining me now is a former senior Scotland Yard commander, Roy | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Ramm, and the MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, in your opinion, as | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
someone close to the Duggan family, whose constituency the rights and | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
killing took place in, is this verdict the right verdict? We have | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
to respect the ten men and women, ordinary Londoners, who looked at | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
this case for three months and came to the conclusion they did. But in | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
looking at that conclusion, there are answers still that the family | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
obviously want. The first thing is that they concluded that the | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
investigation into what went up to the stop was not good enough. The | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
second thing, that Mark Duggan was unarmed when he was shot. Now, that | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
is a huge development, and that is why the Independent Police | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Complaints Commission needs to reopen, continue its case and come | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
to a conclusion very, very quickly indeed, because there is dismay, | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
shock and deep concern in the broader community tonight. You are | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
clear about what the IPCC needs to do in the investigation, do you have | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
faith in the IPCC that they can do what is required of them? Look, I | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
must have faith in that organisation, but I have expressed | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
deep concern about how independent the IPCC are, what the resources | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
are, about police investigating themselves, and these concerns have | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
actually been echoed by the Home Secretary. So would would be wrong | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
to say there is confidence in the Independent Police Complaints | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Commission, there is not, but nevertheless they are looking at | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
this, they have been looking at it for two years. They have said they | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
are reopening the case tonight. They now need to get to a speedy result, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
because actually the jury has also raise questions, despite coming back | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
with the lawful killing verdict. It sounds like you do not have faith in | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
the IPCC. Roy Ramm, a sigh of relief at Scotland Yard is tonight, do you | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
think? I think Scotland Yard would have wanted a clearer verdict. You | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
know, the comments of the jury that they did not think Duggan had a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
weapon in his hand at the time he was shot as obviously left doubts in | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
everybody's mind about exactly what went on. But I do think there is a | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
sigh of relief insomuch that there is a vindication of the operation. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
There was much that was said about the way the operation was planned, | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
and that overall they had belief in the officers' evidence, when he said | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
that he felt life was at risk and he had an honest belief at that time. I | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
think they will be much relieved. Let me put that to David Lammy, Roy | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Ramm, a senior former commander, saying there is vindication for | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
officers denied. You think, in the eyes of the people of Tottenham, it | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
is vindication for the actions of the police? The coroner is coming | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
back tomorrow morning with further conclusions, so let's see what he | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
has got to say. I think vindication is too strong. This jury did raise | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
questions about the nature of the investigation, and that needs to be | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
on the table, and that is why the IPCC have got much work to do. So of | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
course, understandably, there are concerns, because effectively, yes, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Mark Duggan was shot and killed, but he walked out of that minicab and | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
was not carrying a gun. Let me just as Roy Ramm, the police learning | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
lessons from previous cases, from this case, we have seen John Charles | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
the Menezes, 2005, whenever there is a shooting, the police say they will | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
learn lessons, but it seems like nothing is ever being done. Is this | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
lip service from Scotland Yard? Let's be clear about the facts here. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
In 2011`12, there were something like 12,000 armed operations across | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
the UK. Shots were fired by police in just five of those operations. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
Since 2000 and 72 today, the number of armed operations by police has | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
been reduced. `` since 2007 to today. You have police officers in | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
incredibly difficult situations, asking people to make split`second | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
decisions. If we don't want to be involved... If people don't want to | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
put themselves at risk, don't belong to gangs, don't carry firearms and | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
don't move in that kind of circle, then he will not be at risk. Thank | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
you very much. Still to come before seven, a | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
mother's campaign on passports, she says some parents wrongly used of | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
abducting their own children at airports. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
People living near rivers in Surrey have spent the day clearing water | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
out of their homes, while women and children were evacuated from a | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
caravan site in Shepperton. Flood warnings are still in place and | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
further rainfall is expected which could cause levels to rise. Tarah | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Welsh is in Chertsey tonight, with the latest on the situation. Tarah. | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
This area has been completely underwater all day. The streets, the | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
houses and the gardens, and as you can see, lorries are picking up | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
people's furniture so it doesn't get damaged. It's too late for some | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
people here. This is not a lake but Susie's front garden. This is the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
only way to get in and out of their house. We are side deep in water so | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
to get the end of our drive, it was impossible, so it's quite scary for | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
something you normally take for granted. The Thames its banks last | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
medal was every home on the street is underwater. You can see where it | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
is seeping in at floor level here. The water is running through. We are | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
just trying to prevent damage. We don't know what's going to come | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
tonight. That's what is worrying everyone here, what is next. They | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
have clubbed together to hire a digger to make a trench. Staff at | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
the local garage are trying to get that of the flood water. They are | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
gearing up for more problems. Usually come you can't see the river | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
from here because it's just write out where those boats are, but the | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
water has completely covered this flood plain and district. It even | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
worse at the other end. It is knee deep, and the water is running so | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
quickly that it's just not safe to stand in. That's where this site | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
is, 25 women and children had to be evacuated from their homes last | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
night. It was really scary. The water was waist high, as you can | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
see, I'm wet now. Many homes have been left without power and heating | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
and the toilets are blocked. People have had to fill their own sandbags | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
and haven't had any help. OK, we were here yesterday delivering | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
sandbags for them, and again at half six this morning, and we have | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
delivered more and more sandbags to them. We have helped many people as | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
they possibly can. The council is offering a shelter for people who | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
need it, but some are leading to stay in hotels and others are | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
staying put, but they all agree it will be sometime life returns to | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
normal. Flooding here is affecting travel, particular trains, and | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
elsewhere, too. Trains from Paddington are being delayed because | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
of flooding in Oxford. There are still several flood warnings across | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
the south`east and you can find out about them on the Environment | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Agency's website. It is just started to rain and more rain is expected to | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
night which potentially means more misery for people tonight and | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
tomorrow morning. OK, thanks very much. A mother from Surrey has | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
launched a campaign to force the Home Office to put parent's names on | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
children's passports. She claims divorced and unmarried parents have | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
been wrongly accused of abducting their own children as the name on | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
their children's passports doesn't match theirs. Here's Alex Bushill. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Valerie Burgess said her family holiday to Ireland was ruined | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
because as she is married, she doesn't have the same surname as her | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
children. When they return to London, an ordeal Institute at | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
border control at Heathrow. Unsettling for me and the children. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
I take the children, he looks at my passport, I'm not expecting | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
anything, sees my name is different from the children, they have their | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
father 's name, and instead of talking to me about it, turns | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
directly to the children and said, who is this lady? At which point, | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
they sheepishly said, my mum. Since 1998, children have had to travel | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
under their own name on their own passport, and gone with the days of | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
the offspring be named on their parents documents, but now this | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
housewife wants to change that. It's simple and doesn't require | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
legislation. Teresa May needs to agree to change the passports to | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
include parents names in the existing passport at the point where | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
you apply for your passport, you have the option. And then, you can | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
provide the legal documents required and then you don't need to travel | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
with them. She is divorced so her children don't have her family name | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
and she's as half a million other people could also be affected. She | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
says is not acceptable mothers are routinely wrongly accused of | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
abducting their own children. In response, no one from the Home | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
Office was available for comment. They sent me a statement which said | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
border staff have a duty to protect children and may question any | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
passenger and will also do so professionally and politely. This | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
will not change whether or not parental names are added to | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
passports. For mothers like Valerie, it's of little comfort, and she says | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
she's been discriminated against simply because she is not married. | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
What will be one of London's busiest stations is currently hidden from | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
public view by big blue hoardings on Oxford Street. But our Transport | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
Correspondent Tom Edwards has been given the chance to see how | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
Tottenham Court Road's billion pound transformation is taking shape, | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
years before it's fully reopen. Next to centrepoint, Portman Court Road | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
station is being rebuilt. And today we were given a glimpse of what it | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
will look like. This is an escalator shaft which were connected to the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Northern line. There will also be a Crossrail interchange here. You will | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
be able to cope with the predicted passenger 's growth, up to 200,000 | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
today. Places like Canary Wharf, big, spacious, lots of capacity, | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
lots of space, lots of escalators. This area has changed beyond | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
recognition. Shops and the famous story of venue are long gone. | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Demolished to make way for the new station. This was the site three | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
years ago. The work is on time and on budget. So says Transport for | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
London. Massive amounts of money are being invested in the Tube network | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
in part paid for by higher fares. Transport for London claims it has | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
had an impact with delays down 53% since 2003. But more huge changes | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
are just around the corner. That station will be controlled by London | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Underground staff. 750 job losses are planned and all ticket offices | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
will be closed. The result of an RMT union ballot is expected on Friday. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
It has concerns over staffing levels and safety, strikes loom. Weaker | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
industrial reaction ahead and it could be a miserable year for Tube | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
passengers. I hope not, that's not a matter for me. I want to ensure we | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
need to implement the changes, run the place more efficiently, | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
continued to drive the amazing improvement we have seen over recent | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
years. We can only do that with our staff. While the modernisation of | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
the Tube continues, other changes to the underground will be as equally | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
challenging. Let's return to the top story and the lawful killing verdict | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
on the death of Mark Duggan. There were angry scenes outside court | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
earlier when Duggan's supporters shouted down a Metropolitan Police | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
officer giving a statement. But we can now talk to Assistant | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Commissioner Mark Rowley. You can see from the reaction outside court | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
earlier that trust in a Metropolitan Police is a long way from being | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
re`established, two years on from the shooting. There's obviously a | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
few people there very angry, very emotional, and given we are talking | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
about the death of someone, whatever the circumstances, no death is what | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
anybody wants. However dangerous the people we are facing, we set out to | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
arrest people and take weapons of them. Obviously people are upset and | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
concerned about it. A few people? Is that how big a problem you think | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
this is? It's just a few people, is it? I said there were a few people | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
outside court. The jury spent several months considering the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
evidence. Not the conjecture and room and things printed and | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
hypothesised on the Internet. They consider the evidence and came to | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
the conclusion this was a lawful killing. No operation starts with | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
the intention of killing anybody and we must be sympathetic towards the | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
family. The professionalism of the officers has been supported by the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
jury. There's still a lot of confusion about what happened even | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
after today's verdict. Do you feel the conclusion today have helped the | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
public to understand what happened and the precious officers were under | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
under the day? `` pressures. We are running thousands of firearms | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
operations are you several times a day, confronting threats, and be | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
fire shots once or twice a year. Those incidents, the massive | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
scrutiny. The split`second decisions made by officers in difficult | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
situations, the jury analysed those, and concluded Mark Duggan had | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
a weapon with him in the car before he was stopped, and when the officer | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
decided to fire, that was lawful and reasonable in terms of what he did. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
OK, thank you very much for your time this evening. Now the weather | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
with Sara. Though not surprised to hear there's | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
more rain on the way. A low pressure system spinning more rain towards | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
northern and western parts of the UK. For us, we will have rain in the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
form of showers to come, so this evening and overnight, more rain to | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
come and it will be windy. Not a particularly piece of good news. As | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
you will see, the showers coming through the night, we could see ten | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
or 15 millimetres worth of rain, getting on for more than half an | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
inch by tomorrow morning and that's not great news. That, things are | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
starting to improve, becoming much more quiet in the coming days. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Pressure tomorrow, so the showers dying away. In the afternoon, | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
sunshine coming through and it will be dry. As we go through the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
afternoon, these temperatures will feel a bit cooler. It also sets the | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
trend for the coming days because we have high pressure building towards | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the south of the UK. It's not going to kill off all weather fronts | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
towards the weekend because we do have this weather system for late on | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Friday but by the time it gets to us, not too much rain left in that. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
We will have a fairly slow start on Saturday morning with some cloud but | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
it will be dry in the afternoon and staying dry for the rest of the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
weekend. A number of flood warnings across the Thames, towards the West. | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
Thank you very much. Before we go, a look again at tonight's main news | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
headlines. An inquest jury has concluded by a majority of eight to | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
two that the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham in the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
summer of 2011 was lawful. The jurors decided that Mark Duggan did | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
have a gun but it was not in his hand when he was shot. Mark Duggan's | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
death sparked riots across London which spread to a number of cities | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
across England. There were chaotic scenes at the Royal Courts of | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Justice as the decision was read out. More than 100 flood warnings | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
are still in place across the country with more heavy rain | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
expected this evening. A cyclist died earlier today after falling | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
into floodwater just outside Oxford. That's it. The debate about Mark | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
Duggan's shooting continues on our radio station. I'll be back later | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
during the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:45. |