sparked after police shot a man dead in tottenham north london this is because the situation is richard seymour is a british writer of the activist joining us on the line from london tonight this is a good evening the u.k. prime minister says the fight back is underway what did it take so long road to employ these tougher measures. i think because for a start the political leadership was in a bit of disarray david cameron was on holiday the metropolitan police is in serious crisis over the whole hackett scandal that's taken out a large chunk of its leadership and there's a lot of competition going on for who's going to take over those roles and in addition to that the metropolitan police has spent a generation trying to repair some of the damage done to relations with black communities in this country the last thing they need now is to fritter all of that work away one of the real problems they're facing here is that the unit that killed mark duggan was a unit belonging to operation trident that was supposed to be a unit that was set up on the list of the black community it now seems to be one