I was 11 when Mark Duggan died and funnily enough, I was in London. In a family friend's flat, a tower block in Highbury and Islington, the news played as the riots were only premature.
It was daylight and yet the shop across the road put its shutters down to avoid destruction. It was the start of a 5-day whirlwind of violence in the capital as people were outraged and wanted to know why an unarmed black man had been shot and killed by the police.
Now, I’m 22. Last week, Monday, I watched the news to learn another unarmed black man had died at the hands of the police - 24-year-old rapper Chris Kaba. Chris died of a single gun wound. His fiancé is pregnant and he will never get to meet his child.
