The Met needs to stop demonising the dead

The Met’s decision to release more information on Chris Kaba’s “character”, presents us with some worrying ethical issues, says George Pitcher 

It’s perhaps axiomatic to say that some worrying ethical issues arise from the acquittal on a murder charge of police firearms officer Martyn Blake, who shot dead Chris Kaba two years ago. It might be a bit like observing that the bombing of Gaza for the past year has been morally troubling.

But it’s not so much now about the circumstances of the killing of Kaba and Blake’s innocence in the act of it that require further scrutiny. It’s what senior police figures have said about it since…