| British politicians are looking to the US for advice on techniques to stop future disorder after three nights of unrest in the United Kingdom last month - events that were sparked by the killing of Mark Duggan, a black male, shot dead by police. But crowd control practice in the US, according to an example highlighted by official documents from US policing agencies, extends far beyond traditional law enforcement. When the killing of an unarmed black man in Oakland, California, by a police officer, triggered the community into angry disorder, local police called in reinforcements. Numerous federal and local enforcement agencies were brought in to infiltrate crowds, subdue demonstrators and assist in mass arrests as a part of actions that lawyers say were unconstitutional and violate the police's own regulations. |
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