Dozens of people demonstrated Saturday, September 17 outside the headquarters of Scotland Yard to demand "
justice
" after the death of a black man killed by a police officer, who reignited the debate on racism in the London police.
Chris Kaba, 24, was shot dead by a police officer in south-west London on September 5 as he was being chased by a patrol driving his car.
The young man, who was unarmed, was injured and died overnight in hospital.
A homicide investigation has been opened
His family has called for a murder investigation, wondering if Chris Kaba would have died "
if he hadn't been black
".
Gathered not far from Westminster where the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is exposed, the demonstrators demanded "
justice
" for the victim.
“
He had no weapon.
So why did he get shot?
Why was he killed?
He was going to be a dad.
His son will grow up without his father, why?
“, wondered the writer Chris Sibia, exceeded by”
the injustice
“.
According to police, Chris Kaba's license plate had been detected by a camera reporting that the vehicle was linked to an incident involving firearms in the previous days.
The policeman behind the shooting was suspended and the police force (IOPC) opened an investigation for “
homicide
”.
She said she would investigate whether the fact that the victim was black played a role.
The family, however, expressed anger that the inquest could take up to nine months.
In 2020, the arrest by London police of black athlete Ricardo Dos Santos, his partner and their baby, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, caused a scandal.
It had resulted in the opening of a vast investigation into racial discrimination within the police.
Since then, the former head of Scotland Yard, Cressida Dick, resigned in February, in the wake of a damning report from the IOPC pointing to racist, misogynistic and discriminatory behavior within her teams.