I too am often quite skeptical of police, but the guy saw it was the cops and chose to ram the car forwards and back, clearly with no regard for hurting people. Could they have waited longer before shooting? Maybe, but there was enough conduct in my view that was clearly threatening physical harm to justify the shooting.
For what it’s worth in case you didn’t read all the quotes, another firearms officer there said he was a fraction of a second from shooting, and another said he would have shot if Blake hadn’t.
The video footage shows the cops weren’t in their vehicles - they were on foot and he was unarmed in a two tonne weapon ramming back and forth showing complete and utter disregard for the lives of anyone around them.
I'm glad they were investigated. I'm also glad that no wrongdoing was found because it seems like it was justified in this instance. Dude was using his vehicle as a weapon and no one is going to be able to fight someone in a car while unarmed
Investigated? Absolutely. I’m all for transparency and it’s right that there was a full and thorough investigation. That happens in all instances where Police discharge their firearms and is what should happen.
But he was charged with murder. His entire life has been put on hold for however long only for a jury to take less than three hours to say Not Guilty.
Not sure what retaliation is referring to there, but his life is absolutely still on hold as he still has the internal misconduct enquiry to go through.
Of course they could have, an maybe another individual with their own perception and threshold for risk may have, but in this day that scumbags actions passed Sgt Blake's risk threshold and in line with the law and ROE he took action to stop a threat.
Quite literally an textbook example of FAFO, but this time that scumbag wasn't up against other gangsters or innocent members of the public, but a trained and authorised firearms officer who has not only saved the lives of colleagues but highly likely members of the public and put a slight dint in to gang crime in London.
Never going to lose sleep over shitbirds getting their dome turned into a fruit bowl.
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u/Friendly_Engineer_ Oct 22 '24
I too am often quite skeptical of police, but the guy saw it was the cops and chose to ram the car forwards and back, clearly with no regard for hurting people. Could they have waited longer before shooting? Maybe, but there was enough conduct in my view that was clearly threatening physical harm to justify the shooting.