The Guardian

Distrust, disbelief and frustration is palpable on the streets around Electric Avenue. Here in Brixton, the buzzing heart of south London, news is sinking in that a police officer has been cleared of murdering an unarmed Black man in the borough.

Chris Kaba, 24, was fatally shot in the head by firearms officer Martyn Blake, 40, during a vehicle stop in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022. He was the fourth unarmed man to be shot dead by police in non-terrorist operations since 2005. All were Black.

A Metropolitan police marksman has told a court he shot dead an unarmed man in a car after becoming “filled with dread” the suspect would use the vehicle as a weapon and kill his colleagues trying to detain him.

Martyn Blake denies the murder of 24-year-old Chris Kaba on 5 September 2022 in Streatham, south London.

The Audi Q8 Kaba was driving had been forced to stop by police who believed it was linked to a firearms incident the previous night in nearby Brixton.

Historic England is releasing the Air Pictures Portleven Collection, a unique archive of images revealing 1930s England from the air taken by pioneering aerial photographer Arthur William Hobart, on its website. Hobart started in the young aerial photography industry in about 1920. This way of capturing the new developments and industry of the time provides a fascinating and informative insight into a changing country

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A Metropolitan police firearms officer may have been “angry, frustrated and annoyed” when he shot a suspect in the head despite him posing no imminent threat, a jury has been told.

Chris Kaba, 24, was killed on 5 September 2022 in Streatham, south London after a single bullet was fired through the front window of the car he was driving by a police marksman, Martyn Blake, 40, who denies murder.

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