Within days of a firearms officer being charged with the murder of an unarmed man, hundreds more put away their guns in protest, leaving top brass scrambling.
When England’s prosecution service announced last month that a police officer would be charged with murder after fatally shooting an unarmed black man in London, the news was met with relief by the dead man’s family.
The case echoed the ongoing tensions in the United States between the public and the police, and calls for accountability over the deaths of civilians after police encounters. The episode was one of many over the past few decades that have contributed to distrust of the police among minority ethnic communities in Britain compared with the population at large, experts say.
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