Killing that led to UK riots was lawful: jury

A British inquest jury concluded Wednesday that police acted lawfully in shooting a man dead in 2011, prompting an angry reaction two years after his death sparked nationwide riots.
The family of suspected gang member Mark Duggan shouted obscenities at jurors after the verdict, while police said reinforcements were ready to deal with any fresh unrest.
The 29-year-old father of six, who had previous convictions for low-level offences, was gunned down after police stopped the taxicab in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, on August 4, 2011, on suspicion of having collected a gun from Kevin Hutchinson-Foster and had been under surveillance for suspected gang link.
Hutchinson-Foster was jailed for 11 years in February for supplying the gun.
The jury found that police had not done enough to gather and react to this intelligence, but they recorded a verdict of lawful killing by an 8-2 majority.
They ruled that Duggan did not have a gun in his hand when he was shot by a police marksman in the arm and the chest. But they concluded that he had had a gun with him in the taxi and threw the weapon over a nearby fence seconds before the killing.
The resulting unrest in London, Birmingham, Manchester and other English cities left five people dead and caused millions of pounds' worth of damage.