Met Police firearms officers plan mass downing of guns if Chris Kaba murder suspect is identified, marksman tells Sky News

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1. I have an idea. Don’t murder someone if you don’t want to be publicly outed.

2. The article notes that naming the suspect is standard procedure, but the Met don’t seem to think that should apply to them.

3. To be honest if he is found to be not guilty, I think naming him would be a serious error of judgement. There’s such a public frenzy about this, with dangerous people probably on both sides, that it would be incredibly dangerous to name him.

   There’s plenty to criticise the police for, and I’m rarely one to stick my head up and defend them, but I would say the same about another non-police high profile murder suspect who is found to be not guilty.

4. He won’t be named, this just Firearms Officers naming a low price so that they dont actually have to hand in their ticket and get bounced back to response policing.

5. If the police are allowed to carry and use high caliber semi-automatic rifles then I think the average civilian should be allowed to do the same.

   a criminal could clone my cars reg plate and use it on a similar car to carry out a violent crime. Next thing you know im being woken up in the middle of the night after the firearms police raid my house in search of the assailant.

6. Fuck me if a jury finds him guilty there’s going to be a Mark Rowley led gutting of firearms officers over this protest

7. Nobody should have the impunity to kill.. not even the police.. this officer didn’t handle the pressure and over reacted to the situation.. a head shot without observing a firearm is murder ..

8. Would this breach s91(1) of the Police Act 1996?

   >Causing disaffection
   >
   >(1) Any person who causes, or attempts to cause, or does any act calculated to cause, disaffection amongst the members of any police force, or induces or attempts to induce, or does any act calculated to induce, any member of a police force to withhold his services, shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
   >
   >(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both;
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   >(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or to both.

   [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/91/enacted](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/91/enacted)

9. Why did it take the police so long to show up to Capitol Hill today? Because they had to go home and change first.