London is safer without Chris Kaba, says Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick

London is safer without Chris Kaba, says Tory leadership candidate Robert JenrickSky News

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00:00I can't believe on national TV you're giving airtime to a conspiracy theory like that.

00:06Chris Cabber was on a one-man crime spree. He was stabbing, he was shooting, he was committing

00:12criminality on our streets. London is a safer place without this man and Sergeant Blake is a

00:18hero. He is someone like all our firearms officers who put themselves literally in the line of fire,

00:24have to make split-second decisions. An immensely challenging job. His name has been dragged through

00:30the mud. His family is now, I believe, in hiding as a result of a bounty being put on his head.

00:36We should be doing everything we can to support him, enable him to get his life back together,

00:41to return to active service if that's what he wants. We should not be making his life any harder

00:46by spreading misinformation like that and frankly I want the IOPC to drop this suggestion that he

00:52will be investigated for gross misconduct. He's a good man doing his job, he's been cleared by a

00:58jury and he should be able to get on with his life. Something is broken when a part of our community

01:04feels that that was an assassination. But it wasn't an assassination. But that's my point,

01:11something is broken. I disagree, I think there is a reflection on that man, not on the police.

01:18Sergeant Blake has just gone... He was representing a part of the black community.

01:24I don't know if he's representing anyone other than himself. I don't want there to be different

01:29communities in our country. I want the law to be enforced without fear or favour. That's what

01:35matters here. Sergeant Blake was doing his job, he shouldn't have been tried. The case was

01:42determined in less than three hours by the jury, they found him not guilty. We should accept that judgment.