Facebook/GETTY Edmonton MP Kate Osamor said rioters were 'justified' in their anger

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Edmonton MP Kate Osamor who has been appointed junior shadow minister for women and equalities less than a year after her election win in the north London borough, also described the police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death led to the riots, as a ‘clear miscarriage of justice’. Mr Duggan was shot dead by police marksmen in Tottenham who were later cleared of any wrongdoing, although Duggan’s friends and family has blasted the police for it. Miss Osamor branded officers in the area ‘oppressive and racist’, saying the shooting was one of a ‘series of illegal procedures’ used against people in cities across England. She also claimed that Tottenham’s residents had been ‘targeted for a concerted attack by the repressive forces of the State’.

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As soon as the death of Mark Duggan became known to the wider community, it would only be a matter of time before the shared feeling of justified anger and bitterness would explode onto the streets Edmonton MP Kate Osamor and mum Martha

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. The pair wrote that stories of Duggan’s criminal past, having been linked with up to ten shootings, were ‘superficial’ and designed to create ‘an atmosphere of fear and terror’. They went on to call his shooting a ‘clear miscarriage of justice about bad police and bad law enforcement’.

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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.’ 'As soon as the death of Mark Duggan became known to the wider community, it would only be a matter of time before the shared feeling of justified anger and bitterness would explode onto the streets.'

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