...to bring in a verdict that anyone could have brought in a day after the event?
A man armed with two knives who was shot dead by a City of London Police during lockdown was lawfully killed, a jury at an inquest has concluded. A Metropolitan Police officer Tasered and then fatally shot Hassan Yahya, 30, on March 8, 2020, in Northumberland Avenue as he moved towards the force HQ Great Scotland Yard. On Friday, a jury at the Inner West London Coroner's Court returned a verdict supporting the conclusion of the Met’s internal investigation that Yahya was lawfully killed.Did they do nothing wrong? Well...
IOPC regional director Charmaine Arbouin said: "During the course of the officers' interactions with Mr Yahya, they made numerous attempts to apprehend him using non-lethal force - including multiple discharges of Taser over a five-minute period, which proved ineffective."
Just as with dangerous dogs, they wasted time trying to take him alive.
It was later discovered that Yahya had been receiving treatment for mental health issues, but this was unknown to the police at the time.
And if it had been known, it shouldn't have changed a thing.
Paragraph 1 "shot dead by a (sic) City of London Police"
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Well which is it Standard? They are two separate police forces.
"Well which is it Standard? They are two separate police forces."
ReplyDeleteAnd once, a paper called the 'Evening Standard' would have had some. And would have had local reporters who would have known their patch.