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Participants have been asked to wear white T-shirts and bring candles. An independent post-mortem was carried out yesterday on the body of Mr Nkencho. While a post-mortem had been carried out already to determine the circumstances of his death, the second post-mortem was ordered by the solicitor for the Nkencho family and is independent of the one which will form part of the State’s investigation by An Garda Síochána and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission into the fatal shooting. Dai...

Stephen Ng’ang’a, who attended the vigil with his daughter Stephanie (12), said gardaí should apologise. “Blanchardstown being one of the communities that has a majority black community, we expect that the police would know how to handle black people and would know that aggravated force would not solve the situation. “We will keep marching on, we want justice for George and we want it now. “[The gardaí] should apologise for the extraordinary force because we have seen instances wher...

George Nkencho: Candlelit Vigil Set for the Spire By Mike Gilmore A candlelit vigil will be held in honour of George Nkencho today, who was shot dead by armed gardai on Wednesday. Mourners will gather at the Spire at 3pm this afternoon to remember George Nkencho, who died outside his home in Clonee after being shot three times by gardai. The 27-year-old was killed while allegedly brandishing a blade and threatening gardai.  Mr Nkencho is alleged to have ass...

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Turning out to the ariana grande in spite of last nights tragic attack. >> keep calm and carry on. lucy, great to see you, thank you. well be back to lucy in a bit. joining me is brian dillon, former head of the ldon metropolitan police armed response unit. as we heard from the police commissioner, eight minutes seems like a short time for police to get on the scene and also to eliminate the threat here, kill these attackers. what do you think was on the mind of these officers as they were rushi...

That is a threat run through policing for many years and i think thats the root really to try to solve this type of activity in the future. >> as you said its very early on in the investigation. well keep everybody posted on this. head of the london metropolitan police armed response unit, thank you. we have new reaction today of the event in london from members of congress and former secretary ever state, some pushing back on a tweet by the president calling for his travel ban to be reinstated ...

Fear and the in the restaurants as well we didnt know what was going on. and standing back with a couple of friends one heavily pregnant. and then glass started mark. and we ran uprights to the toilet. and just as i looked down the stairs a guy had come into the restaurant and uncovered a big knife looked like a machete. then we -- i grabbed my friends and dashed straight into the -- into one -- one cubicle with the four of us we were quiet. and we were probably in there for about an hour. and i...

Mind, that kind of thing. im not surprised to see the effort going into each a hoax vest. i think there was more to it than a straight intimidation. we dont know that. im just going by my experience in seeing how criminals prepare and do things. certainly, it can be only to intimidate passersby and trying to stop them. thats possible. >> jim, thank you so much for that. if youd be so kind to hold on one second. wed like to bring in the former head of the london metropolitan police armed response...

Said i dont know. i dont know. basically i was talking to your husband the entire time telling him -- telling him to send the armed response unit the right away basically we fear for our live and we think its became over because we thought they would shoot through the hour after an hour of being in a silence in a cubicle one heavily pregnant due last week basically fearing for her life. and the armed response unit came and she went to show whether or not the armed response or not whether it was ...

With these individuals and the authorities will be working pain stakingly, not just to identify these people and the connections that they have, but potentially any wider reach that these three individuals last night have into potentially any other acts that might be ability to take place in the united kingdom. >> brian, you know the process of the way the armed response unit has worked over the last 24 hours and going forward. there are two major investigations ongoing right now. one of course ...