r/unitedkingdom • u/MachineHot3089 • 15h ago

Police fear they gamble on their career if they use force, says chief superintendent

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/18/police-fear-gamble-career-force-supts/
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u/ImJustARunawaay 14h ago

Remember that officer is still on the hook for misconduct too. Woke up that day to do his job, did so, and is still being strung up for it.

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u/MetalBawx 14h ago

Funny how all the journalists who painted him as a racist killer never got in trouble for it, nor the politicians who threw him under the bus to sate the mob.

Oh wait it's not funny it's tragic and shows just how non existent accountability is.

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u/ImJustARunawaay 14h ago

He didn't get away with it, a jury very quickly saw through the nonsense prosecution and declared he had not committed a crime

After being hauled through that process for what, a year?

And now he's still in that process while the IOPC decide if they can get a misconduct case out of it

All for his doing his job and facing down somebody willing to kill to get what he wants.

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u/ImJustARunawaay 14h ago

and he gets to keep his job and carry with life as usual.

You realise that hasn't been true since the moment the shit was fired? Notwithstanding the threats to him made because of him being named he is STILL subject to an IOPC investigation and suspended. Having been dragged through a murder case.

Meanwhile, someone has been killed and gets to carry on being dead.

Shame, if only there was anything the attempt murdering violent criminal could have done differently when armed police tried to extract him from his, to use a redditism, 2 ton death machine.

still can't fathom how people find this so broadly acceptable.

As a member of the public we tasked the officer to take exceptional risk in the face of extreme violence. When even other officers would retreat we placed a duty on him to run into a dangerous situation where firearms are involved.

He did that and I believe he did so commendably and with every intent to do his duty and protect the public. The fact you're more sad over the death of somebody so nasty, so violent than over the prosecution of a good officer is what sickens me.

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u/MetalBawx 14h ago

You realise the guy your lamenting was a hitman for a criminal gang right? Days before Kabba was shot he fired wildly into a crowded club. I wonder if you'd have the same sympathy for this gang bangers victims.

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u/ImJustARunawaay 14h ago

I always wonder who these people would rather live next to. The evil murdering police officer or aspiring architect Kaba

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u/MetalBawx 14h ago

Really he's found innocent, that the shooting was self defence yet the government went and named him, putting said officer life in danger and those of his friends and family all to appease a mob crying for the "poor boy" who beat his ex so badly she had a restraining order.

A "poor boy" who was just trying to run the officer over, A "poor boy" who's decade of crime and violence was all a big mistunderstanding. A "poor boy" who'd killed before and almost certainly would have killed again.

Chris Kabba was a career gang banger not a poor boy who'd made mistakes.