After the verdict was announced, dramatic video from September 5, 2022 revealed the moment Blake shot Mr Kaba through a car windscreen before shouts of 'shots fired', 'where from' and 'first aid' could be heard.
READ MORE: Former Met marksman: Blake trial was 'a farce from start to finish' . LISTEN:To the jury in Martyn Blake 's murder trial, Chris Kaba was described as an excited father-to-be and building site worker shot dead after being cornered by armed police.
While members of South London's black communities have said people should look beyond his criminal past and that the decision to clear Sgt Blake in just three hours has left them traumatised, insisting it was another racist killing in the capital. Amid claims that race played a part in the shooting, he says: 'In the case of Chris Kaba, the officers involved don't know who's driving that car. The driver could be white, black, male, female, you don't know'.
Read More Former Met Police marksman cleared of murder says Martyn Blake trial 'farce from start to finish' I wondered: Are we now going to have riots and even more anti-police rhetoric? Will the truth about Kaba come out - or will the facts just get drowned out by people angry because it didn't suit their agenda?If you're asking me honestly, absolutely, I would have shot Chris Kaba in that situation.
If he was armed, I'm sure those officers would have been in a firefight, because he would have thought nothing of engaging police officers with a firearm.But he tried to ram his way out and if that results in running over and killing a police officer, or indeed running over and killing a member of the public, then you take the shot. I would have done it.
Kaba's mindset as a hardened criminal adds weight to the situation those officers found themselves facing. Sergeant Blake was offered up like a sacrificial lamb, and I think it made the powers that be feel better about themselves.But they put that before a court anyway so they could stand there say: 'We put this in front of a court, and the court made the decision, not us'.
But with regards to somebody like Chris Kaba. He wouldn't have given a second thought to taking somebody's life. Activism including the BLM movement also came to the forefront and all of a sudden people made this a race issue. You'd think: 'I don't get paid very much. Why would I want to work earlies, lates, and nights. Why would I want to give up time with my family? Why would I want my health damaged? And then I do my job, get hung out to dry to make other people feel better'.
Would he want to remain in the police service? I don't think so. Does he want to be involved in an organisation that put him up as the sacrificial lamb?
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