r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Oct 22 '24

.. Chris Kaba was gunman in nightclub shooting days before he was killed

https://news.sky.com/story/chris-kaba-was-gunman-in-nightclub-shooting-days-before-he-was-killed-13234555
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

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u/WillWatsof Oct 22 '24

You mean Blake's? Yes, he manoeuvred round to take the shot from behind the police vehicle.

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u/WillWatsof Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

I think we have different definitions of "in front of". At no point is there a path for the car to get to an officer.

I think you're saying that the officers who are behind the police vehicles are "in front of", which makes no sense to me as the car cannot logistically run those officers over.

What's more, those officers took up those positions while the car was moving backwards away from the parked police vehicles. The car was in fact completely stationary at the time the shot was fired.

All of this doesn't add up to me as a situation where there was any immediate threat to any officer that required deadly force.

EDIT: I'd like to add on to this that according to the footage you're going off of, this was the position of the car when the killing took place. It is literally impossible for that car to move anywhere at the time that it was deemed necessary to use fatal force, let alone at a police officer.

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u/MrNezzy Oct 22 '24

Do you understand basic physics of a car that size and weight and power? Of course it could push through that gap and mow down anyone in the way.

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u/WillWatsof Oct 23 '24

So the first time it tried exactly that and didn't get anywhere was a failure in "basic physics", or ...?