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Re: In the news today...

Postby UFGN » Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:50 pm

theHotHead wrote:Exactly, the CPS had all the particulars for the case, how it ended up in court confirms the ineptness of the judicial system how it is currently operating!


I’m not defending the CPS, ultimately it’s their job to look dispassionately at cases, and act on the strength of the evidence and nothing else. They shouldn't have brought this case. But seriously, black man shot by the police. Would you want to be the one to sign off the paperwork to decline a prosecution? Seriously now? Your name on all the paperwork.

Nobody wants their name, and by default their career prospects, on that paperwork. So they keep passing the hot potato until it’s left for a jury to decide.
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Re: In the news today...

Postby DiamondGooner » Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:19 pm

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.
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Re: In the news today...

Postby UFGN » Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:22 pm

DiamondGooner wrote:
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.


I sometimes wonder if getting shot that day was the first real thing to happen to that idiot. How far from reality do you have to be to think you’re going to drive away from that situation?
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Re: In the news today...

Postby theHotHead » Fri Nov 01, 2024 4:42 pm

UFGN wrote:
theHotHead wrote:Exactly, the CPS had all the particulars for the case, how it ended up in court confirms the ineptness of the judicial system how it is currently operating!


I’m not defending the CPS, ultimately it’s their job to look dispassionately at cases, and act on the strength of the evidence and nothing else. They shouldn't have brought this case. But seriously, black man shot by the police. Would you want to be the one to sign off the paperwork to decline a prosecution? Seriously now? Your name on all the paperwork.

Nobody wants their name, and by default their career prospects, on that paperwork. So they keep passing the hot potato until it’s left for a jury to decide.

Well deciding if a case goes to court is part of the judiciary and like I said, its broken - if people are too scared to do the right thing.
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Re: In the news today...

Postby UFGN » Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:33 pm

Horrendous news from the flood hit areas of Spain. They’ve started pumping out the underground car parks in the city and there are apparently many victims trapped in cars which were underwater in the car parks
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