The Army including the SAS has been put on standby as armed police officers stood down, handing their firearms licences back over one of their officers being charged with murder for the shooting of Chris Kaba.
Yesterday several stood down, but today every single anti-terrorist police firearms officer in the MET has stepped back from firearms duties. That’s in the region of around 3000 officers.
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Wiki:
On 5 September 2022, Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old man and member of 67, was shot dead by police in Streatham Hill, London, England. The car he was driving, an Audi Q8, was believed by police to have been linked to a “firearms incident” the day before. On the day of the shooting, the Audi was followed by an unmarked police car until it was met by a police road block. Armed police who had been in a marked car approached on foot. Witnesses said that Kaba refused to leave his car and drove it into one of the police cars, one of the armed officers fired a single round at Kaba through the car windscreen. He was taken to hospital but died of his injuries the following day. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) then began an investigation into the shooting.
In September 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service authorised the charging of a police officer with the murder of Chris Kaba.
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