...and shows us why the country will never be free of activists and racehustlers:
Speaking outside Brixton station the morning after a jury took three hours to return a not guilty verdict against Met officer Blake, who had denied murder, Carlton Warren said the verdict was “shocking”. “But what can you say? There’s nothing you can do,” the 64-year-old added. “It’s frustration you feel more than anything, it’s sad for his family, [Chris Kaba’s] not been given a chance. But we’re living in perilous times – it’s going to get worse before it gets better.”
It's not going to get better until you lance the festering boil in your own 'community'...
Ola, 29, has never had a bad encounter with police in London. But in the 15 months he’s been in the country, he’s heard so many stories about “Black people being stopped and searched without a report of them being involved in anything” that he says he’s “not really surprised” by Chris Kaba’s story.The video producer says that even before he arrived in the UK from Nigeria, he had heard stories about police here.
The irony of someone from Nigeria fearing our police won't be lost on anyone...
On a street near the Ritzy Picturehouse, Isaiah Nature, 52, questioned why lethal force was necessary. “Even though [Chris Kaba] was known as a violent man, if this is my job, I’ve got to look at the situation. I could shoot him in the leg, you could reach for the gun,” he said.
Sure you could, although wouldn't the dashboard get in the way?
Walking back from a Jamaican bakery on Coldharbour Lane, Tasha Nelson, from Streatham Hill, was adamant that “justice hasn’t been served”. She was sad for a family who have lost a son and incredulous at the idea police can’t “stop a situation” like Chris Kaba’s without resorting to lethal force.“I went to all the vigils, because it’s just down the road from me,” she said. “I think police get away with so much. I have got kids and I’m teaching them how to react [if they get stopped]. I think if it was a Caucasian person bringing up kids, you don’t need to discuss it, it’s not the same. In this situation [Chris Kaba] didn’t have a gun. I think if it had been a Caucasian guy sitting in the car, it would have been entirely different.”The elected representatives aren't any smarter:
The Clapham and Brixton Hill MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, said “there was a lot of pain and anger and hurt”, first at the fatal shooting, and then at the acquittal, in a borough that has “the lowest confidence in police in London”.
“So many Black men have faced harm, in some cases death, following contact with the police,” she said.
And how many 'following contact with other black men'? Black men like Chris Kaba, in fact?
“I understand [police] have a complex job with extreme pressures, but no one is above the law. Black people are over-policed as citizens and under-policed as victims.”
Well, if they won't tell the police what they know, what else can the police do?
Meanwhile, race relations activist Lee Jasper, a former policing director for London, called for juries in such cases to hear expert evidence on institutional racism.
“If the rationale is a police officer only needs a reasonable belief to fire his weapon, then it’s tantamount to a licence to kill,” he said. “This verdict will make it absolutely clear to Black communities that when it comes to the Met police, Black lives don’t matter.”
They don't seem to matter much to the black community either. Maybe tackle that first.
7 comments:
"before he arrived in the UK from Nigeria, he had heard stories about police"
But he was still happy to come here. And moan about it
This entire Chris Kaba thing has read like parody. It truly shows that some black people want to be above the law. There can be no other reason for it
"I could shoot him in the leg,"
Cobblers. Been watching too many movies.
As far as I am aware, there is no such thing as shoot to wound. You either have justification to fire, or you do not. If you have justification to fire you have justification to kill. If you have justification you fire you aim at the centre of body mass. (If you do end up just wounding, you need more training!)
Open to correction by any firearm trained police.
I've read that more black people are killed by other black people than the police.
When he came into the room it lit up - even if we couldn't breathe for the gun smoke after the flash. There are unsurprising parallels with the reactions to the death of a certain sociopathic career criminal and junkie out there in the colonies. As usual, the race profiteers crawl out from under their rocks and spineless politicians bend over and show their true colours.
This violent gangster was known to carry and use guns when the mood took him, and if he had not been killed that night, would have been standing trial for attempted murder with a gun. And even if in this case he was not armed with a firearm, he was armed with a couple of tonnes of performance vehicle.
Uneducated rabble who will never learn that they have much more chance of getting killed by one of their own “ community “ than they ever have by the police
Jaded
"But he was still happy to come here. And moan about it
This entire Chris Kaba thing has read like parody. It truly shows that some black people want to be above the law. "
If only it was just some.
"Cobblers. Been watching too many movies.
As far as I am aware, there is no such thing as shoot to wound. "
Correct! 'Shoot it where it's biggest' is the rule with dangerous game too.
"I've read that more black people are killed by other black people than the police."
And that never seems to generate any marches and protests...
"When he came into the room it lit up - even if we couldn't breathe for the gun smoke after the flash."
😂
"And even if in this case he was not armed with a firearm, he was armed with a couple of tonnes of performance vehicle."
Yes, I'm sick of seeing the 'unarmed' bit in sympathetic stories.
"Uneducated rabble who will never learn that they have much more chance of getting killed by one of their own “ community “ than they ever have by the police"
Undoubtedly.
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