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London police officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba acquitted of murder

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London police officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba acquitted of murder - Al Jazeera English

A London police officer who fatally shot a Black man two years ago has been acquitted of murder.

Martyn Blake, a 40-year-old marksman with the Metropolitan Police, was cleared by a London jury on Monday in the death of Chris Kaba.

Blake shot Kaba, 24, on September 5, 2022 on a narrow residential street in the Streatham Hill neighbourhood in south London.

Kaba was unarmed and driving an Audi that police believed was linked to a shooting the previous day, which they forced to stop.