Man who shot two cops joins forces with his victim to tackle gun crime by S_Fleary1
FORGIVEN: James Seymour and Leroy Smith are now friends determined to stop other young people turning to crime
He said: “As they were struggling on the floor I saw Leroy pull a handgun out of his waistband and hit Simon in the leg, as he fired it.”“Leroy fired another shot which hit me about a centimetre away from my spine, ripped across the top of my kidney and ripped out the side of me,” he said. During the first five to ten years of his sentence he took drugs because he “couldn’t take it” and was “stabbed a couple times in prison.”
Looking back on his life, he says he was a very different person in the 1990s and was known by the tag named Skeema, and said his notorious reputation across south London, making him “very powerful.”, his mother was murdered when he was just two years old and he had to live with his grandmother in Clapham, south London, which severely impacted him as a child.
Mr Seymour who retired from policing in 2014, said the harsh upbringing and the racial inequalities Mr Smith faced, made forgiveness the only option. “Every police officer has to watch video the story of restorative justice , with me and James because the probabilities are that he is going to become a victim in the line of duty and he has to know how to deal with it,” Mr Smith added.
He said there a lot of black men are “bad for each other but they ain’t bad for the system and that’s the truth.He has also set up a charity to give back to his local community and in 2019, he was awarded a community contribution award from the Antoin Akpom Achievements Foundation.
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