theHotHead wrote:So I am reading that black community leaders are not happy with the Chris Kaba verdict and that police/black community relations have been set back!
What the f**k are they talking about?!
Firstly, the way things were reported, you would think an innocent man that had nothing to do with gangs was executed by the police, such were the restrictions put on reporting the trial. I was fuming when I saw the verdict, that the policeman was not guilty.
But then the particulars of the case came out, that Kaba was in fact a prominent member of a dangerous gang and days earlier he shot someone brazenly in a nightclub and then followed him outside and shot him again !!
Then we hear that it wasnt a simple traffic stop, it was a coordinated effort to capture a known gunman who, when boxed in tried to ram his way out. The police officers had no way of knowing he didn't have a gun and when confronted with a guy who seemingly would do anything to evade capture they feared for their lives and Kaba was shot and fatally killed.
Thats an entirely different narrative to what we all thought the story was. How the f**k can the black community be up in arms about this?!!
Sometimes we don't help ourselves at all ! Smh.
Yes agreed.
As a black man yourself I would think it would be quite frustrating seeing this happen time and time again, where so called community leaders try to play the BLM route instead of what normal people see which is .......a man (colour doesn't matter) was stopped by police in an armed stop due to the nature of the criminal (guns) and said criminal tried to use the car as a weapon, ramming through police and barriers to escape.
I mean where is the accountability?
If I drive my car in an armed stop, at police holding guns, I'd imagine there is a high risk I'd be shot, as would anyone with common sense, this isn't GTA the video game.