The "Video", isn't of the incident, the quality is very poor, and actually shows very little. There's not much there to judge anything on.
Garry, it's not often I agree with you, but on the IPCC, at least in it's problems, I do. The causes however, I don't. The IPCC are too hell bent on finding fault with police and hanging people for minor matters. The approach does them no favours. A better way of doing it is to genuinely look at what can be learned, not pretend thats the case but look at ways of prosecuting police with dubious evidence. That way, Police Officers would be more willing to speak to them, and that would speed things up no end. It would also show them to be truly independent, ie of both sides. It's a far better way of doing things that the current plans of introducing legislation to force the issue, which doesn't work. In the same way as Police can only do thier job by being impartial, the IPCC need to be the same, currently, they are not seen to be.
Diving Pete
We could also ask the Parachute Regiment, in particular Pvt Clegg. Now, actually, I have always held the opinion that he should never have been convicted, but his case is an example of the point made by the Coroner in this case, about heat of the moment. However, Politics being what it is, Pvt Clegg was hung for it.
Anyway, there are parallels with Stockwell, no chummy there wasn't armed, but the Police Officers believed he had a bomb, it was a genuine belief, and therefore the self defence argument applied. In the same way as if the Jury are correct about what happened to the gun, it does in Duggan's case.
It seems that even educated people can't understand the reasoning in the Stockewell incident and constantly harp in the wrong direction there, but then they don't have their own QC advising them!