The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan

Forensic Architecture

ISBN 10: 193269885X / ISBN 13: 9781932698855

Published by Cabinet and ICA London, 2021

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Synopsis:

On the evening of 4 August 2011, Mark Duggan was shot and killed by the police in the north London neighborhood of Tottenham after the minicab in which he was traveling was pulled over by a team of undercover officers. The team had begun following Duggan shortly after receiving intelligence that he was in possession of a gun, and the officer who shot him testified that he had seen, for a “split second,” Duggan aiming the gun at him after he had exited the minicab. However, the gun was not found next to Duggan’s body on the pavement. According to the police, they discovered it in a patch of grass some seven meters away. After a coroner’s inquest ruled Duggan’s killing “lawful” and the police watchdog organization issued a report siding with the officers’ version of events, the Duggan family’s legal team commissioned Forensic Architecture to conduct an investigation into the critical question at the heart of the How did the gun end up in the grass? With no video footage of the shooting itself, Forensic Architecture had to rely primarily on the written and oral testimony of the officers involved to develop a spatial investigation designed to test the plausibility of the police’s narrative and to examine whether the officers themselves could have planted the gun. In addition to detailing the investigation and its conclusions, this volume offers a selection of the primary documents used in the case; an introduction by Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, analyzing the notions of “pre-emption” and “split-second decision making,” which are often invoked to defend police killings of Black people; a roundtable with scholar Adam Elliott-Cooper, activists Temi Mwale and Stafford Scott, and attorney Marcia Willis Stewart on the complex colonial and legal histories that have shaped the policing of Black Britons in the postwar era; and a speech by Scott on the struggle for justice for those who have died as a result of racialized police violence.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan
Publisher: Cabinet and ICA London
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket