Tonight’s Sky documentary takes us inside the Met Police firearms unit that killed Chris Kaba. Commissioner Mark Rowley still refuses to admit the Met is institutionally racist, despite Baroness Casey finding racism rife across the force, including serious concerns within MO19 - the firearms unit Martyn Blake was part of when he shot Chris in the head.
Race was not part of the CPS prosecution against Blake. But the CPS is another state institution operating within the same racist society. One arm of the state deciding not to put race on trial cannot be used by another to declare race irrelevant.
The police did not know Chris was driving the car - or anything about his past. They did not know who was behind the wheel. Blake described what he saw: a “Black male” who looked “young and athletic”.
The idea that race plays no role in policing is ridiculous - and Commissioner Mark Rowley surely knows how ridiculous it sounds.
We will not allow race to be written out of what happened to Chris. We will not accept even less accountability for police.
On 5 September, join us at Lambeth Town Hall. The fight for justice is not over.
#JusticeForChrisKaba
a month agomemephistopholes
Justice for the rival gang member be shot days before ramming police cars? 👍👍🫨🫨😔😔🥴🥴🤠🤠
2 months agobizwack0064
The more I listen to this bloke the more I realize he’s just looking at everything through blinked eyes the police force that he runs is corrupt. He knows it, but he can’t say it, and this is where the problem lies
2 months agojpslegacycic
Lies! Race is always a factor when it comes to our Black Boys/Girls & Men/Women! 💯
2 months agoitssjustmyopinion
Please stop being delusional. She has no clue what she is talking about. I tell you what, they should take her on a ride along with these high risk calls and let’s see if her perspective will change. Forget Chris being what he was a “gang member” let’s forget he was “black”. If she was in that situation, in a split second, what decision should she have made. There are people going through actual h*te but let’s also take accountability, let’s call a spade a spade
2 months agowemmyogunyankin
imagine race not being a factor in the “making of split second decisions” by officers of an institutionally racist org, come on.
2 months agohanccasey
Chris was targeted from a young age and “used” for extension of UK state police powers. Sending love and respect to his family. Facts confirm he was killed by the state.
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