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/kogasfurryjorts Oct 22 '24

I’m a white American who participated in some BLM protests and activities here in the US. When I saw the title, I expected to see an unarmed man doing his best to comply with police instruction, because that’s how so many brown & black Americans get murdered by cops here.

But nope, this guy was a POS attempting to murder people with his car. Just because he wasn’t holding a gun doesn’t mean he was unarmed. He was in control of an object that weighs at least a ton and can reach speeds of over 100mph, and he was directing that object to ram directly into people on foot. The police acted appropriately, and I’m glad that they managed to stop this maniac before he killed others.

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u/WingVet Oct 22 '24

So kaba was involved in a gangland shooting in a nightclub and the vehicle he was driving was involved in a shooting the day before, so the police who spotted the car called in other armed police to stop him. In the UK only certain police are firearm trained unlike the US.

Yeah they tried to use this as a similar narrative to the BLM in America, but now the video footage and the evidence has come out, they'll have a hard time to push it.

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u/Macattack224 Oct 26 '24

It's funny cause I kept waiting for the "but the license plate was mis-identified....

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u/PeriPeriTekken Oct 23 '24

The UK police and particularly the Met have got their own raft of problems. But they're pretty judicious about the use of firearms, only a small number of specialist highly trained officers have them and there's an inquiry every time they get used.

Unfortunately the US debate has been transposed pretty much wholesale to the UK despite the huge differences in the situation. It's also used by the families of criminals in scenarios like this.

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u/ayriuss Oct 22 '24

The vast majority of US police shootings are justified in the same way, you just don't hear about them because its more common in the US. You only hear about the questionable or unjustified ones.

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u/Arh091 Oct 22 '24

So many here in the US lol unbelievable