The riots were said to have started when a young male was shot by armed police. Mark Duggan was killed by a single shot by armed police because they received intelligence that he was about to commit a revenge killing for the person who stabbed his brother to death. When the police arrived on scene Duggan was confronted in a tense stand off with the police trying to convince Duggan to drop the BBM bruni self loading pistol that he was carrying fully loaded. Reports from the police say that Duggan fired a shot at the police which lead to an officer returining fire and killing Duggan with a single shot to the chest however investigations carried out by the IPCC found that the only shot found was in a police officers radio which was an exact metallurgical match to that of a armed police MP5 sub machine gun.
The way this links into the riots is said to have been because of this incident as youth groups viewed the police as a gang that were abusing the power they had been given so what was meant to be peaceful protests nearly turned into a full national riot with riots starting in London then moving up to Birmingham and Manchester. The majority of the riots contained youths orchestrating and carrying out the riots not in the most planned way but the point being that youth culture have never had the best media image with constant news reports on youths being anti social or even being involved in murder cases. The riots made youths look like complete degenerates with no goals or future aspirations to achieve in life but to cause mayhem.
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