Jeremy Corbyn’s new equalities spokesman claimed the 2011 riots were the result of ‘justified’ anger at racist policing, it has emerged.

Kate Osamor, the MP for Edmonton, North London, also described the police shooting of Mark Duggan – a violent gangster whose death led to the riots – as a ‘clear miscarriage of justice’.

Duggan was linked to ten shootings and two murders. But after his death in Tottenham at the hands of a police marksman, Miss Osamor said it was only a ‘matter of time before a shared feeling of justified anger would explode on to the streets’.

Kate Osamor, the MP for Edmonton, North London, (pictured in June) claimed the 2011 riots were the result of ‘justified’ anger at racist policing, it has emerged

Attacking policing in the area as ‘oppressive and racist’, she said the shooting was one of a ‘series of illegal procedures’ used against people in cities across England.

And she went on to claim that Tottenham’s residents had been ‘targeted for a concerted attack by the repressive forces of the State’.

Last night it was also revealed that Mr Corbyn’s communications chief, former Guardian journalist Seumas Milne, has expressed sympathy with the 2011 riots, calling them ‘a huge opportunity to channel anger’.

Miss Osamor, who has been an MP since last May and is a member of Mr Corbyn’s inner circle, made her comments in an article she co-wrote with her mother Martha – also a Labour activist – in a 2012 edition of Campaign Briefing, a Left-wing pamphlet. At the time both were members of the Tottenham Constituency Labour Party.

Miss Osamor, the MP for Edmonton, North London, also described the police shooting of Mark Duggan – a violent gangster whose death led to the riots – as a ‘clear miscarriage of justice’ (file picture)

In it they wrote that stories about Duggan’s criminality were ‘superficial’ and designed to create ‘an atmosphere of fear and terror’. His shooting was a ‘clear miscarriage of justice about bad police and bad law enforcement’, she added. And the 47-year-old MP compared the riots which followed to the Arab Spring uprisings against dictatorships in the Middle East.

She wrote: ‘The media, as usual have chosen to sensationalise several unfounded, unsubstantiated stories about the estate rather than find out the truth.

‘When the media focus their cameras on the Arab Spring, they tell us of innocent people being shot in Syria and Libya and the need to go and support the rebels against the oppressive dictatorship.

‘But when black people want answers to a clear miscarriage of justice about bad police and bad law enforcement, the media decide to report only the negative.’

Duggan, 29, was shot dead in 2011 while he was under surveillance by undercover officers. They were monitoring him after they found out he was about to pick up a gun from a criminal associate. The riots which spread across London and the rest of the country following his shooting led to five deaths and £200million of damage.

Yesterday Miss Osamor’s comments sparked anger among police officers. Steve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: ‘They are dangerously inflammatory and wholly without foundation.

A lengthy inquiry into the death of Mark Duggan by an independent body found there was no misconduct by any of the armed officers involved.’