The truth about Chris Kaba has come to light. Not only does it vindicate Sergeant Martyn Blake, who ought to be given a medal for keeping the public safe.
It now shines a light on all those who disgraced themselves and continue to disgrace themselves today.
It turns out that Chris Kaba was a gangster, a hoodlum, a violent criminal. A mere six days before he was shot by Martyn Blake, Carver shot a gang rival in Hackney.
He was a core member of the Brixton based 67 gang that stabs, shoots, murders people and deals with illicit drugs, too.
Jacob Rees-Mogg reacts to the IOPC's statement following Martyn Blake's acquittal
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So now it's time to name the list of people who I think really ought to hang their heads in shame.
Former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn said this shortly after the shooting: "We cannot live the pain felt by his family, but we can support them in demanding justice for Chris Kaba."
After it was referred to the CPS, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said this last year: "My thoughts are with Chris Kaba's loved ones today. Chris had his whole life ahead of him and his death has had a huge impact on Londoners and in particular black Londoners."
He claims to be in regular contact with the Metropolitan Police, advises them when to send police outriders for pop stars, so surely he must have known about Chris Kaba's criminal background. Does the Mayor of London really think so little of black Londoners that they would identify with a gang member and a thug?
The Runnymede Trust issued a statement just yesterday claiming Carver's death was a case of racist state violence, citing statistics that could have whipped up racial racial tensions. This is an institution that receives your money via the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Black Lives Matter UK once again showed its extremist tendencies when it encouraged crowds to go and protest outside the Old Bailey last night, bizarrely arguing for police and prison abolition. Even the judge in the case, Mr. Justice Goss, to me, behaved oddly in not allowing the jury to know about Kaba's background, that he was a criminal.
It clearly shows the policeman's fear that lives were at risk was a justified one, and the policeman made the right decision in the heat of the moment, even if he didn't at that time know who Kaba was.
But perhaps worst of all, the acting director of operations of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the body that recommended the CPS pursue charges against Sergeant Blake, Amanda Rowe, said: "Firstly, we want to acknowledge Chris Kaba's family and friends today as they continue to grieve his death more than two years on, our thoughts and sympathies remain with them and everyone else who has been affected. The past few weeks must have been incredibly difficult and distressing for Chris's family, who have sat through the trial, listened to all the evidence and witnessed the final moments played out in court."
Firstly, but surely firstly, we should be thinking about Sergeant Blake, a man who did his duty, not the family of a gangster whose life was ended because of his own actions and failing to surrender to the police when challenged. What about his life, about Sergeant Martin's life that has been ruined over the past two years?
He's now living in protection because the mob, the mobsters, have a price on his head. He's been dragged through the courts. He could have been sent to prison for life, for murder. He triggered a strike from firearms officers which put the public safety at risk because they thought one of their own was being treated so badly, and we now know that they were right.
The IOPC spokesman decides to express sorrow for the wrong person, for a criminal gangster who shot someone days before his death. This dreadful organisation is now suggesting a misconduct hearing for Martyn Blake, which is a monstrous and outrageous, a wicked suggestion, and it ignores the basic fairness of the double jeopardy rule, which runs through our justice system, which prohibits somebody for being tried for the same offence twice. They must drop this proposal.
They should be ashamed of themselves and this case should remind us of two things. One, that the police risk their lives daily to protect us, the public, and it is our duty to back them in return.
And two, there is an establishment at work that undermines our police through the cynical politics of sectarianism and race baiting. We cannot, we must not fall for it, and must remove its influence in our institutions and instead encourage heroes like Sergeant Martyn Blake, who tried to keep us safe.
