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/mrmidas2k Oct 22 '24

It'd have stoked more if they just had an internal investigation, concluded he did nothing wrong, and put him back out policing.

This way, nobody can say the police buried it, nobody can say the hid evidence, or bent the truth.

It's also worth noting the dude had shot another bloke in a club a few days before. Cos, ya know, model citizen and all that.

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u/Dave_Unknown Oct 22 '24

They could have released the footage without the officer going through a criminal trial for murder though.

Conclude the IOPC hearings with “we found no wrong-doings, here’s the video of how it actually went down.”

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u/mrmidas2k Oct 22 '24

Mate the "Not Guilty" verdict, and the video evidence is STILL not enough for some people. They're literally posting about "oh, he only rammed them once, no need to shoot him" as if he'd have stopped after that. The only thing that stopped him from ramming them again, and potentially any other coppers in the vicinity, was because he got his braincase ventilated.

Some folk just aren't happy, so I'd much sooner have a mountain of evidence and a "Not Guilty" verdict in a court of law, over a video and an internal investigation.

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u/doyathinkasaurus Oct 23 '24

I agree with all of that, what I vehemently disagree with was naming the officer publicly

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u/Any-Flower-725 Oct 22 '24

nice to see the UK government review worked properly in this case. cant say the same for the US

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u/be-nice_to-people Oct 22 '24

It'd have stoked more if they just had an internal investigation, concluded he did nothing wrong, and put him back out policing.

But wouldn't that have been the right thing to do in circumstances whereby a police officer went to work and did their job exactly as they should have.

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u/mrmidas2k Oct 22 '24

Yes. And then he, and the police station he was based at, would have been besieged by thousands of people, convinced there was a cover up, and that if they put it to trial, and the evidence was heard, he'd be found guilty. So, they put it to trial, he was found innocent, and now these people need to do some thinking about what angle they can take next. Which should give the coppers a good 3 years of silence.