Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

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    1 年前

    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.

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      1 年前

      According to OP’s article it had been used in a shooting. Still not really an excuse to kill its occupant though.

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      1 年前

      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

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        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