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Originally Posted by rogueteens
I got the drug dealer and gang member information from wikipedia. He also already had a record
I dont know about the rest but Trident and the Specialist Firearms Command (CO19) were both involved and neither are normal street police so wouldn't have got involved unless they expected something. My guess would be that they targeted him because he was carrying a loaded weapon. Guns are illegal in the UK. Trident is the UK black gun crime unit and CO19 are the armed police. Normal police are not armed.
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So they pulled the cab over because they suspected he had a weapon, then they shot him to death because it appeared that he
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"endangered human life" which possibly meant that he either went for his gun or made a movement that looked like he was drawing a weapon.
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From this bit of "evidence" it sounds like these special operations police went in thinking he had a gun, therefore ANY move the guy would make could be mistaken for going for his weapon.
I understand the whole illegal firearms thing in the UK, but to make a special operation to stop this guy in a cab to take his weapon seems really, really suspicious.
Just to let you know, this scenario which is also known as a "convenient excuse for a kill" has been played out many times in the U.S.
The cops use this to simply say "we thought he was going for a gun."