Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

  • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    The common factor here is a very biased US outlet doing the reporting. In short:

    US media: “police shoot Unarmed Black man during traffic stop”

    UK media: “suspect of shooting incident cornered by police, shot when trying to ram through roadblock. Family stops public protests after seeing footage of incident”

    • Caboose12000@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      yeah I think you’re right, with that kind of extra detail I wouldn’t have been confused. even the article itself didn’t make it clear what the context could have been, it sounded like they were casually driving and the officer just blindfired into his car for no other reason than “criminal bad” y’know? the fact that the man was about to ram through a roadblock or that the family gave up their protest after seeing the footage should have been front and center