Prosecutors say an officer with London’s Metropolitan Police drive who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with homicide
ByThe Related Press
September 20, 2023, 8:18 AM
LONDON — An officer with London’s Metropolitan Police drive who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with homicide, prosecutors stated Wednesday.
Chris Kaba, 24, was killed in south London on Sept. 5 final 12 months, after police pursued his automotive and tried to cease it. His car was hemmed in by two police automobiles in a slender residential avenue within the Streatham Hill neighborhood. Police fired one spherical at Kaba, who was shot by means of the windscreen of the automotive he was driving.
Rosemary Ainslie, from the Crown Prosecution Service, stated that following a radical overview of proof, a cost of homicide was licensed towards the police officer, who stays unnamed.
Kaba died after he was struck by a single bullet, she stated.
The police officer was suspended from responsibility following the incident and is predicted to seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on Thursday.
The case has sparked outcry and criticisms of institutional racism within the police drive. Kaba’s household welcomed Wednesday’s growth, and stated they hoped that any trial can happen at once.
Kaba was being adopted by an unmarked police automotive with no lights or sirens on the day he died. He was driving an Audi that didn’t belong to him.
The Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct, which investigated the case, stated the taking pictures got here after the activation of an computerized quantity plate recognition digicam, which indicated that the car Kaba was driving was linked to a firearms incident in earlier days.
It’s uncommon for law enforcement officials within the U.Okay. to be charged with homicide or manslaughter.
In 2021, a police constable was sentenced to eight years in jail for the killing of Dalian Atkinson, a former skilled soccer participant who died after being shot by a stun gun and kicked within the head throughout an altercation. The policeman, Benjamin Monk, was cleared of homicide however convicted of manslaughter.