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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.
Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.
@Syldon
Here’s some from a more detailed article:
I think this leaves out a bit.
Also I found this really interesting
The original BBC article words it a bit differently
Not sure what they changed their mind about
This should be the top comment right here. Some actual context around what happened.
Yeah I looked around. It still needs the trial to be completed first.
Did the guy do something silly that made the policeman shoot, is an unanswered question.
What was the criteria for releasing the shot would be the second question. The CPS will not prosecute without a fair chance at conviction, but innocent until proven and all that.
You could also be asking what was he doing in a car with the history it had, but that should not be justification to kill someone. I would not wish for the UK to follow in the US footsteps of frivolous shootings.
I saw this in the Wikipedia article
Dunno how the situation actually went down though
@Syldon I agree, presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
But it does sound to me that there’s definitely going to be a strong case for this prosecution.
I’d love to know what “recently linked to a firearms incident” actually means, especially given that it seems to have been flagged by an automated system and that “firearms incident” was seen as justification to ram a car off the road and then shoot the occupant in the back before any actual threat was verified.
What’s your source for these claims?
Comment above cites more ofbthe article claiming he was trying to ram through a roadblock, and his family took a step back from public protests after they were shown footage of the incident
The article, where they say the cops rammed him off the road, that he was shot in the back of the head and that the subsequent investigation found no weapons
The one where they say he tried to ram his way out a police encirclement
According to OP’s article it had been used in a shooting. Still not really an excuse to kill its occupant though.