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UK Police Given Unchecked License To Kill
UK police shoot dead another unarmed man in a ‘pre-planned’ operation following similar cases in recent months raising fears police have a license to kill.
Britain Internal Affairs reveal man police shot dead did not have a gun in his car after similar cases in recent months raising fears officers are given the say-so to kill citizens indiscriminately.
The police earlier said 36-year-old Anthony Grainger was killed in a “pre-planned” police operation but did not clarify what prompted the shooting, but witnesses report armored officers approaching the vehicle after firing CS gas at the car and moments later the police fired shots through the window after Grainger reportedly refused to raise his arms in the air after given orders to do so by the police..
Grainger’s death has immediately sparked unrest given the long history of similar incidents in which at least 333 individuals have lost their lives in police custody since 1998 ..
Not single officer has been convicted over the death of the 333 victims over the entire 13 years which has triggered annual demonstrations against the police atrocity and corruption, including setting the stage for the London Riots last August.
Anthony Grainger Shot In Chest During Pre-Planned Police Operation
The Daily Mail reports:
‘It was like a movie’: Children flee in terror as armed police swoop on village and gun down criminal cleared in drug trial fiasco
- Children in playground ran for terror as armed police shot Anthony Grainger
- Officers dressed in black and wearing gas masks opened fire at red Audi
- IPCC probe after Grainger, 35, died from ‘single bullet wound to the heart’
- Greater Manchester police refused to say whether victim, 35, was armed
- Girlfriend hits out at police for shooting him in ‘corner of a car park’
- Three men appear in court charged with conspiracy to commit robbery
Children fled in terror as armed police opened fired on a gang of robbery suspects and killed a convicted criminal whose drugs trial collapsed after a juror contacted a defendant on Facebook.
Youngsters in a playground ran for cover while teenagers cowered in a pizza takeaway shop as police gunned down Anthony Grainger in Culcheth, Cheshire.
The 35-year-old father was shot in the chest by officers who wore protective masks and let off CS gas as they moved in on a red Audi hatchback on Saturday night.
The fatal shot was fired through the windscreen and local reports suggested that the killer round may have penetrated his heart.
A police source said officers had been tracking the car for some time in the belief that those inside were about to carry out a robbery.
When the occupants were seen allegedly putting on balaclavas, armed officers surrounded the car and ordered the three men inside to put their hands up.
It is believed Grainger did not do so. Moments later, officers opened fire.
Two other men were held after the swoop, which Greater Manchester Police said was a ‘pre-planned operation’ following a tip-off.
They refused to say whether Grainger, from Bolton, was armed and it is not known if any weapons were recovered from the car.
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Source: The Daily Mail
Press TV adds()with additional information and links to background details added)
UK police given free rein to kill
Britain’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says the man police shot dead in Cheshire on Saturday did not have a gun in his car after similar cases in recent months raising fears officers are given the say-so to kill citizens indiscriminately.
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, after police beat a 16 year girl protesting his death and the corporate media covered up the beating.
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 and no less did not 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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Source: Press TV
Sky News also confirms the IPCC found no weapons at the scene.
Police Shooting: No Weapons Found At Scene
An “initial visual search” inside a car in which a man was shot dead by police has failed to locate any weapons, the police watchdog has said.
Anthony Paul Grainger, from Bolton, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after the car he was in was stopped in the village of Culcheth, Cheshire.
The vehicle was stopped on Saturday evening in what police described as a “pre-planned operation”. Mr Grainger was shot by an armed officer.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) deployed investigators to the scene and took over the investigation following the shooting at around 7.20pm.
Initial evidence collected suggests two police firearms were discharged during the incident, the IPCC said.
However, a full ballistic examination needs to be undertaken on the recovered police weapons to confirm this.
At this stage it is known that one round was discharged by an officer carrying a Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine.
This passed through the car windscreen and struck Mr Grainger, 36, while he was sitting in the driver’s seat of a red Audi car.
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Source: Sky News
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