So Lets Crucify Another Copper For Trying To Do His Job.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68502539

So he shot a known criminal in a stolen car.

[THECORBYLOON]

Does the fact that the man was a known criminal remove the requirement for the police to act within the law?

 

[Redhelen72]

I am not doubting your knowledge for a minute but where did you get the information that he was a known criminal in a stolen car from?

[andy-hughes]

He is not being 'crucified', he has been named, which has been deemed correct under the law.

When he is tried, a jury will decide if the officer's action constituted murder or not - until them he remains innocent.

As for what I deduce from the wording of your OP - being a criminal in a stolen car does not mean you are not protected by law - it's not OK to shoot someone for being a criminal in a stolen car. 

[andy-hughes]

I have cross-posted with the previous answers,  but it appears a concensus is forming.

[ToraToraTora]

12:12 just google, he's been in jail, got plenty of form. He was using the car as a weapon to try and kill police officers.

[Redhelen72]

I did google and the two news reports I read did not allude to your version.

Which is why I asked.

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/23/chris-kaba-had-jailed-previously-police-stopped-car-discovered/

career still in progress....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/men-hackney-independent-office-for-police-conduct-old-bailey-tower-hamlets-b2324280.html

The plod did us all a favour.

[ToraToraTora]

Career was still in progress....

[andy-hughes]

TTT - Again, having 'plenty of form' does not negate your rights under the law, as you appear to infer.

The notion that he was 'using the car as a weapon' is not legal evidence. The court will decide his perceived intentions based on sworn testimony.

Taking 2 and 2 from unproven media sources, and making 22, and adding your own character assessment, does not validate your argument in any way.

[ladybirder]

Groan.

[Redhelen72]

your first link is unreadable!

your second link is about something that is happening to known associates of his not to him.

So you have not provided any evidence that he was and I quote 'known criminal in a stolen car '

 

[ToraToraTora]

12:35 You just need the headline in the first link, the second link tells us that this copper probably saved a life by removing a low life who was in the planning stage of murdering someone else.

Why do lefties love crims and terrorists?

"So you have not provided any evidence that he was and I quote 'known criminal in a stolen car '" - I think serving time is generally a good indicator of having a criminal record. It says the car was not his in the original link, so there's a good chance it was stolen but that was not really the point. He was trying to kill police officers using it as a weapon.

[ToraToraTora]

headline from the Telegraph link:

"Chris Kaba had been jailed previously after police stopped his car and discovered knife"

[Redhelen72]

He could have been jailed for non payment of council tax!

But don't let facts get in your way pet!

You saw a certain type of man and thought yep he deserved it!

[ToraToraTora]

He was carrying a Knife, it said so in the headline.

[pastafreak]

It's said everything from America reaches here at some point.

So now we've got American style police justice. All we know from the first link is that Mr Kaba was shot in the head through the windscreen. 

[ToraToraTora]

Yes he was driving his car at the police. One of them jumped onto the bonnet and shot him. Result! Give that man gong.

[Redhelen72]

I used to carry knives all the time as do many people.

The point being it doesn't matter - he was shot before being charged or any other legal action was taken.

It was their job to get him to the station so the correct legal process could be actioned.

Instead he shot him there and then, that is a policeman acting as judge jury and shooting squad.

 

[royfromaus]

Should cops let criminals shoot first?