Police officer cleared

[Toomanywars]

Martin Blake police officer today cleared by a jury of unlawful killing of Chris Kaba

Should police officers get more support. Perhaps not release name until after trial or inquiry.

You do realise you can still drive a car with flat tyres? Certainly well enough to continue ramming vehicles around you and run police officers over and kill them.

A few years ago a gang member was killed driving the wrong way up the North Circular. He drove for over 2 miles at high speed with 2 flat tyres while fleeing from the police. Two flat tyres didn't slow him down. Going straight under an oncoming lorry was a slightly different matter however.

I'm honestly not sure what some of these SJWs want - for the police to just let a gangster kill them, because the poor gangster being killed is such unimaginable horror to them?

I think the reason people talk so much about black on black crime is because listening to the people who like to remind us that 'black lives matter' you could be forgiven for thinking that white people (or the police) are the biggest threat to the safety of black people in this country. But that's simply not true, is it?

No it isn't true, @TwigletsAndRadishes, as many black posters have been good enough to remind us, but it suits some to pretend it is in order to avoid the questions communities need to be addressing themselves

As ever it's so much easier to blame "someone else" than to look within

Edited to add the news you mentioned about officers remaining unnamed while investigations take place is welcome, but probably impossible to monitor.
As said before, what chance do you suppose there is of crminals and their enablers keeping schtum if the name's known to them?

Word on the street is that a few weeks before he committed firearms offences, Mr Kaba tried to kidnap a young woman off of the street.
However, she is "blessed" to have real , grown men as relatives who come from a time when young men could not easily intimidate capable men.
He got the beating of his life.....allegedly.
Couldn't be me wasting my woman time banner and bangle waving on behalf of woman hating scum.
Is there such a thing as a gangster for whom women are not merely props or pawns?

Yes, Yvette Cooper announced this.

Makes Claire Holland, leader of Lambeth Council look a right twat (she is..) in the context of the Labour HQ stance.

Just looked to see if there was a Go Fund Me page for the police officers involved- no, or not that I could find.
There is however one for CK's family and 'justice for CK' and people are still donating.

OMG
kendodd me too! Can't find one for Martyn Blake but one for KC's family

Or accountability on herself!

the histrionics and dramatics from the family is shocking.

This 100% he is an utter disgrace…beggars belief he is the mayor

Yep!! Front and centre playing the victims! Jeez hang your heads in shame…or stay silent…can’t they be done for living off his criminal earnings??

somebody needs to dig into them as they were happy for the spotlight on them trying to stir up trouble!

Search the video online, it was on the news yesterday. He was ramming police cars and had previously been in trouble over a shooting. The other people involved are all now in prison. He was a gang member.

Not being a legal expert I couldn't say, but there's some info about it here: https://mk-law.co.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-poca/poca-limitations/

However can you imagine the howling if the family were targeted for such an investigation, even if it could be proved in the end that they benefited from Kaba's criminality?

Yes I know all about it now. I asked the question before his background was made public

Surely he needs to apologise publicly?

Khan is a parasite. He is a devastating risk to the future of London.

The ITV news report tonight has been full of the effect on the family and interviewed a man whose mother, Cherry Groce, was mistakenly shot in an event that sparked the Brixton riots. That was obviously awful, but this event is not the same and they surely shouldn’t be compared!

This case has highlighted the need for some kind of ruling that prevents people from taking advantage of the vacuum of information caused by reporting restrictions surrounding legal trials to paint someone as an upstanding character and use that distorted narrative to raise money, politically campaign or agitate for riots. If the public can't be informed about someone's bad character then neither should they be wilfully misled about that person's supposed good character. We should either have full disclosure or no disclosure. One side should not be allowed to seize the narrative.

So I'm not being unreasonable then. They shouldn't be named. A bounty on the head of this officer is disgusting. The people who support the pond life that is CK are as vad as he is.

You were not unreasonable. It looks like your op said what has happened

Well, you have to be a trustafarian to afford such luxury views as defund the police.

I think the behaviour of CKs family and friends could well have contributed to the sort of rioting we saw in 2011, where 5 people died, many more were injured and much damage was caused in a lot of communities. It was right that his background was made public quickly after Martyn Blake was acquitted.

People are doubtless mourning him, but deflection from the fact that he was a fairly senior gang member, driving a car which had been identified in 3 shooting incidents in the last few months and crying foul on the police for their reaction to the situation that he caused helps noone. Gangs are wrong, county lines are wrong, protection rackets against innocent refugees are wrong. He was involved in all of these. He was on a bad path. He was not Stephen Lawrence or Anthony Walker, innocents who died because of racism.

I don't believe that his family and friends were unaware of his (very recent ) activities, some of which had resulted in imprisonment, which they would have fully known about. He wasn't a "good boy". He was a gangster who exploited others. That would be true if he was black or white. The police saw a man trying to make a run for it (and we can now speculate as to why, a possible attempted murder charge from a few days earlier) in a marked car that was associated with shootings, who then rammed them repeatedly.

Please tell me why they should have acted differently, how much leeway has to be given to anyone who behaves as CK did that night, with the knowledge about that vehicle that they had.

Quite right. And when the inevitable happens, will these people be held accountable for it?. Of course not.

I think you have some reading to do.

This is literally what I've been saying to my partner! I hope not another penny of the public's monet will be spent on this! You live by the sword...

I'm so saddened by the discourse I'm seeing on social media. I hope it's a small minority.