"Hundreds" of Met Police armed response officers hand in the weapons after colleague charged with murder - Chris Kaba Shooting aftermath.

Nathan said:
I can’t believe the judge blocked that. Again, awful behaviour from the top.

During the firearms briefing that officer would have been told of kaba’s identify, capability and intent. This would have involved his previous showing he clearly has the capability. This would have then formed part of that officers threat assessment.

Absolute dog mess from that judge

Loveable rogue he was not it seems.
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Its standard legal procedure can't be allowed to be stated during the trial as it would potentially prejudice it and it wouldn't be a fair trial.
 
Correct verdict. The release of the BWV footage (finally) also disputes much of the nonsense being spread on social media after the incident, namely that the police used unmarked ARVs that weren't lit up (there was marked ARV in front of him with lights on) and didn't issue verbal commands or make themselves identifiable to Kaba (at least two shouts of "Armed Police" are heard in the clip) who was instead panicking at being boxed in by some black SUVs. He knew exactly what he was doing and if he hadn't been stopped, we'd have easily been looking at a repeat of what happened to PC Andrew Harper.

There ought to be an enquiry as to why both IOPC and CPS took this to court in the first place.

Chuk_Chuk said:
Is it the IOPC that recommends things for trial?

Have they put out a comment or apology yet?
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No, the IOPC submits the case file to the CPS (as the police would) and the CPS decide whether to prosecute.

The IOPC won't apologise. If anything they'll go for a second bite of the cherry via other means.
 
Dis86 said:
It's not irrelevant though. Let's say you walk to the shops every day. And every day the same dog tries to bite you. Will you assume that just like yesterday it's gonna try and bite you again today? I would. It's called self preservation.
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The police dont just shoot people based on their history. The history could be the reason the police were armed but his history is not the reason why he was shot.
 
Pleased they are reporting this now.

I'm sure he was a great bloke aside from the odd shooting here and there... honest.
 
200sols said:
The police dont just shoot people based on their history. The history could be the reason the police were armed but his history is not the reason why he was shot.
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Missing the point. If you know someone presents a threat, you should rightfully be prepared to counter that threat. When they then prove their danger it justifies an outcome.
 
Dis86 said:
Missing the point. If you know someone presents a threat, you should rightfully be prepared to counter that threat. When they then prove their danger it justifies an outcome.
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No, you're missing the point. Kabas actions in the car caused the outcome, not his history before. There are reasons why its not reported before hand because it influences juries.
 
It's interesting that it was vital to protect juries from knowing Chris's criminal history, but it was perfectly OK for media to print the name of the officer on trial, and write biased pieces about police brutality / racism, how Chris was unarmed, and fluff from relatives about what a nice lad he was, how he was expecting a child etc.
 
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Haven't followed this closely but looks from the body worn camera footage to be completely justified. The chap's background is largely irrelevant. Try and smash your way out of an armed police stop and you're going to get shot.

Prosecuting the officer seems utterly obscene.
 
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To be fair I retract on the judges move to silence it. It appears that officers had no intelligence that Kaba was behind the wheel.

If they did it would have very much formed part of the threat assessment. Horrible individual indeed.
 
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that's whats odd - so was there poor police intelligence/technology such that Blake didn't know who driver could be, to recognise him
 
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