> He added that it would be "a very sad day" for policing if armed troops were being forced to step in to help.
Personally I see it as a very sad thing that it's required to have so many armed police in the first place. I don't know the solution but it seems like addressing/ focusing more on the underlining cause would be a good place to start.
"According to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these. In that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show."
The context is that guns are much harder to come by in the UK and as such the armed police in the UK are much less likely to be met by an armed individual. So you would expect there to be far fewer times where they were actually required to open fire.
Might the context not be that armed police in the UK are only used for especially significant incidents and that these may or may not be determined solely on the likelihood of possession of firearms by non-police?
If you're going to charge police officers with murder for shooting at ex-convicts who ram into police cars with stolen vehicles, it's unsurprising that many officers no longer want to carry guns.
This reporting is malicious. It's designed to disinform to stoke racial turmoil and chaos. Consider how deliberate this wording is, and that it's buried right at the end of the article:
>The construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.
>It later emerged the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.
It almost sounds as if Chris Kaba was a law-abiding family man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Having not heard of this case before now, I looked it up, and this man in fact was in the process of conspiring with six others to brutalize and murder another man, was followed and blocked by police, refused to comply with orders, and attempted to flee (putting the officers in harm's way) when an officer fired the fatal shot.
No doubt this disinformation contributed to the false sense of injustice that led to protests by blacks under the impression that they are being targeted by racist, murderous police. No doubt White Brits will be appalled and dumbfounded by the breakdown of law and justice in their indigenous homeland as violent criminals and their kin react with shock and uproar when encountering resistance by law enforcement.
Welcome the media problem in the USA. How many riots have we had for the exact same reasons you describe. Wag the Dog; Bread & Circus; etc. are alive & well.
And the legal investigation can find as such. That's what legal processes are for.
The fact that the police are protesting the legal process, as opposed to a conviction is terrible.
Also, the fact that the guy was a criminal does not make it ok for the police to use their weapons and kill him. In fact, if he was indeed fleeing then that almost certainly is against the rules they are required to follow in the UK as part of the wide latitude to inflict violent force that is granted to the police.
Personally I see it as a very sad thing that it's required to have so many armed police in the first place. I don't know the solution but it seems like addressing/ focusing more on the underlining cause would be a good place to start.
"According to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these. In that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show."
Compare that with 48 just for NYC in 2022: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/firearm...
If this were true, how should society deal with messaging by the media that analogously paints pilots as potential killers?
>The construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.
>It later emerged the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.
It almost sounds as if Chris Kaba was a law-abiding family man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Having not heard of this case before now, I looked it up, and this man in fact was in the process of conspiring with six others to brutalize and murder another man, was followed and blocked by police, refused to comply with orders, and attempted to flee (putting the officers in harm's way) when an officer fired the fatal shot.
No doubt this disinformation contributed to the false sense of injustice that led to protests by blacks under the impression that they are being targeted by racist, murderous police. No doubt White Brits will be appalled and dumbfounded by the breakdown of law and justice in their indigenous homeland as violent criminals and their kin react with shock and uproar when encountering resistance by law enforcement.
Utterly disgraceful.
I honestly can't think of any.
The fact that the police are protesting the legal process, as opposed to a conviction is terrible.
Also, the fact that the guy was a criminal does not make it ok for the police to use their weapons and kill him. In fact, if he was indeed fleeing then that almost certainly is against the rules they are required to follow in the UK as part of the wide latitude to inflict violent force that is granted to the police.
People like accountability until it is applied to themselves.