Chris Kaba

[RaceWithChyna]

The police officer who shot Chris Kaba has finally been charged with murder. It took a while after investigations had to be held but I’m glad the CPS decided to charge the anonymous police officer.

Before people start, yes he’d been in jail. Yes, he’d apparently drove towards officers at an attempt to get away. None of this means he deserved to be killed with an immediate head shot. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even the person they were after. They only realised it was someone else after the fact that he was dead.

I hope the family get the justice that they deserve.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-66865099.amp

He was a lowlife who caused nothing but pain to people in his miserable life.

They knew the car was used as a getaway car for a shooting the night before. That's why it was pulled over. Having been associated with a shooting, they would've known there was a significant risk that whoever was in the car, could have been armed. Yes it turned out they weren't, but since the driver didn't just get out and allow the car to be searched to prove that, they had to play cautious.
At the end of the day, if Chris had just got out, he'd be alive. He reacted badly, the police reacted badly. There's no winners. But I won't shed any tears over someone having to face the consequences of their actions. The jury reached the correct decision

Agreed @fiddleleaffig

Yes of course - thank you regarding why there were armed police attending a stop and search. I see the family is still silent on all of this. Thing is they were very vocal before his past came out and they will be recognised.

I suspect they will still claim he was picked on and that he was turning his life around.

For those who say his hands werent on the steering wheel - they were! One had was being waved around and the other was steering the car. The thing that did it for me on all of this is that the family state he was about to become a Father and the media picked up on this but missed out that the women has got a restraining order against him. That was a gusty thing to do bearing in mind this family who seemingly cannot see the wood for the trees and are likely to ignore any such order.

I'm honestly at a loss to explain his family's behaviour. They know EXACTLY who he was but they have portrayed him so differently in public. Were they hoping for compensation or something? I am disgusted by them and their frank dishonesty in how they have portrayed him.

For the absence of doubt, Chris Kaba was a petty criminal turned serious criminal, a domestic abuser and attempted murderer. He died because of his own stupid, violent attempt to escape from a lawful stop by armed police. I hope this is how he is remembered.

I don't agree with everything the MET has done but I 100% support the officers who brought him to a halt that night. His death was a consequence of the choices he made.

Totally agree and in simple terms surely the definition of Karma.

No one is saying the argument is that if you're a criminal and police can shoot you if you're unarmed.

The fact is that if Police stop you and you refuse and wilfully act in a way that puts yourself, the public and the Police in danger then you put yourself in a position where they will respond forcefully.

If Kaba had complied with Police instructions he would still be alive

What I’m unclear about is why he wasn’t arrested and kept in custody for the shooting 6 nights before? Were the police looking for him so they stopped the car? It seems a bit inept. The jury in the police officer trial knew none of this of course. I think the change to not name offers in such cases is correct.

I think some people squeal racism and unfairness regardless of the truth. I heard former gang members describing why they had been in gangs on the radio today. It was no fathers around, poor educational outcomes, not trusting the police and easy money. So essentially they blame everyone else but ignore the fact others like them don’t have guns and use knives. They choose this lifestyle. I applaud people trying to do something about this culture, but making excuses and shifting blame is not helpful.

There has been lots of talk on this thread about ‘karma’ and ‘he got what he deserved’, lots of criticism about his family mourning him etc. The Police asked for the information about his criminal history to be made public for ‘context’. Absolutely people are saying that because he was a criminal, it’s all justified and ‘one less scumbag on the street’.

I think the family were trying get on the BLM bandwagon and the left wing press are still reporting this death in the context of disproportionate apprehending of people of colour by the police. By not reporting the criminal background of Kaba the family nearly made him a martyr and there are those in the neighbourhood who still feel this is just an illustration of police racism. It wasn't.

I'm disgusted by his family. They knew how vile he was but deliberately misled the public. I can't help wondering if they're aspiring grifters wanting compensation.

Where is the OP @RaceWithChyna I wonder if her opinion has changed .... Chyna? you still here?

Probably at a vigil commemorating this fallen Prince among men.

A lot of the early posts on this thread haven't aged well

Another day and even more stuff about Kaba emerges. Scum to the core.

It is no loss that he is dead.