Amrit Wilson

While the British media and spokespersons for the state preach ‘morality’, they seem to have forgotten that a man was killed on 4th August. Mark Duggan, a Black man, was shot dead in Tottenham, North London not by rioters but by the police.  His family have still not been told why he was murdered.  And when on 6^th August they and their grieving friends organized a peaceful protest outside the police station, demanding to know the truth, they were treated not with compassion but to further violence – with a 16 year old girl allegedly being assaulted by the police. Meanwhile a false story was circulated in the media that Mark Duggan had fired at the police. Is this perhaps what the state calls ‘morality’?

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Naeem Malik

The riots sparked by the death of Mark Duggan started in Tottenham and spread to Birmingham on Monday the 8^th of August. By early morning the next day three young Asians were dead. The link was direct, if Mark Duggan had not been killed, if the protests outside the police station in Tottenham had not been mishandled, then perhaps all of what happened in the inner city areas of Britain last week would have not happened and in Birmingham three young Asian men would not have lost their lives.

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