UK police given free rein to kill?

The Greater Manchester police earlier said on Saturday that the 36-year-old Anthony Grainger was killed in a “pre-planned” police operation but did not clarify what prompted the shooting.

Grainger’s death raised speculations that he will suffer the fate of the other 300 individuals who have lost their lives in police custody or after detention since 1998.

No single officer has been convicted over the death of the 300 victims over the entire 13 years, a fact that has triggered annual demonstrations against the police atrocity and corruption.

Grainger’s case was especially important, as it was at least the third such incident over the past seven months, which also included the death of the 29-year-old black man Mark Duggan.

Duggan’s death is believed to have been the starting point and the trigger for the massive August unrest that was without precedence in a generation and put the country in a state of security alert.

The IPCC said on Monday that inspectors’ did not find any weapons in Grainger’s car and in its immediate vicinity after an “initial visual search.”

“Due to the presence of CS residue in the car a full forensic examination has not yet been conducted to establish whether there are any weapons in the car,” the IPCC said.

“This will take place in a controlled environment in the next few days,” it added.

Grainger’s’ fatal shooting in “unclear” circumstances underlines fears that the police are given a free rein to kill anyone they wish while they rest assured that no trial or conviction is in the works.

The police also claimed after Duggan’s murder in August that he had a gun and had shot at the officers before they fired at him.

Months later, however, the IPCC said Duggan was not even carrying a gun still less to use it to open fire on officers.

The IPCC seems to be following the same line on Grainger’s case that could be the 3,181 death in police custody or after detention since 1969 for which no one has been blamed.

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