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The decision to clear a firearms officer of murder following the shooting of Chris Kaba has been defended by the man who led the investigation into his death. Sal Naseem, who was in charge of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation, said he was not convinced Mr Kaba had presented a sufficient danger to justify being shot. Sgt Martyn Blake, a member of the specialist firearms unit MO19, was acquitted of murder last month, leading to protests from the Kaba family. The Metropolitan Police has acknowledged that its systems for holding police officers to account must be reformed.
Mr Kaba was shot in the head by Sgt Blake after he attempted to ram his way out of a police vehicle stop in south London in September 2022. The Audi he was driving was not found to contain any firearms and had only been linked with a reported drive-by shooting the previous day. During his trial, Sgt Blake argued that he believed there was an imminent threat to life when the shooting occurred.
After the trial, information came to light indicating that Mr Kaba was part of a gang called the 67, had a string of criminal convictions and had been filmed by CCTV cameras shooting and wounding a rival gang member in a packed nightclub in east London six days before the police armed stop. Former Met Police firearms officer who believes Mr Kaba would have
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