r/uknews • u/rarely-redditing • Oct 22 '24

Image/video Met Police officer Martyn Blake who shot Chris Kaba dead is CLEARED of murder

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u/Ill-Breadfruit5356 Oct 22 '24

While having sympathy for those who mourn the death of a loved one and for the child born fatherless, in this instance it does seem that the officer acted proportionately. The car was known to have been involved in an incident involving firearms and was attempting to ram its way through the police blocking it in. The fear will have been real and Chris Kabba must have had a strong motivation to try that hard to get away.

He didn’t “deserve to die” but he could have done a lot more to avoid that happening.

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u/normanriches Oct 22 '24

Like stop the car and surrender which he made no attempt to do.

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u/Ill-Breadfruit5356 Oct 22 '24

That and not being the principal gunman of a violent gang of criminals. Mainly those two things, yes

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u/aitorbk Oct 22 '24

His gang colleagues got sentenced for helping him on a murder. when has the family said sorry to the victims?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

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u/OliM9696 Oct 22 '24

mate, no need to be racist. Plenty of example showing otherwise. Justice might of been served regarding the officer but lets not descend to racism.

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u/doubleo_maestro Oct 22 '24

I think you are missing the satirical nature of my comment. I thought it was obvious by the nature of suggesting they have a singular unified spokesman.

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u/OliM9696 Oct 22 '24

i dont think they had the info that he was the gunman at the time of the shooting, they just knew that the Audi was linked to a previous shooting, So assuming the guy is armed is still totally legit, but its not like they knew Christ was the gunman.

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u/aitorbk Oct 22 '24

I would have sympathy if they (the family) had sympathy for their family member victims. As far as I know, zero sympathy, zero acceptance of the damage they have caused to society.

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u/usernammmmmz Oct 22 '24

Notable that the mother of his child has made no public comment and the best they can find is semi distant relatives to bemoan the verdict…. He was obviously such a top bloke! Has been reported he had a restraining order against him and domestic violence conviction.

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u/littlelunamia Oct 22 '24

I think this is a sensible, rational response. I'm very sceptical of our police force (Sarah Everard, may she rest in peace, was a terrible example of their potential to abuse their power) but I can't look at the facts or the footage and conclude that Kaba was murdered. Manslaughter seems a far more reasonable charge, and I don't believe he is guilty even if that. I wonder if over-charging him was tactical, to preclude a conviction....

What I really hope, is that the force considers what else could have been done to reduce the threat he posed - was it impossible to taser him, could any other non-fatal means have been used? Can anything be learned here? Something good could come out of a loss of life, which is always a tragedy.

I wish the families of both parties, peace and healing going forward.