Cherry Groce's son speaks out following Kaba verdict

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The son of Cherry Groce has spoken out following the verdict of the Chris Kaba trial. Firearms officer Martyn Blake was acquitted after shooting dead 24-year-old Mr Kaba. When reporting restrictions were lifted after the case concluded, it emerged Mr Kaba was a “core member” of one of London’s most dangerous criminal gangs and had been allegedly linked to recent shootings.  Lee Lawrence, whose mother Dorothy "Cherry" Groce had been mistakenly shot by police in an incident which sparked the Brixton Riots of 1985, said: "My thoughts went to the family because I know how devastating it is. The question is: if Chris Kaba was white would he have got shot and would he be dead?"   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00My thoughts went to the family, because I know how devastating that is and how, you know, the trauma and the pain and the loss that you feel when you go through something like that.

00:12Well, the question is, and it's, you know, for the people watching, if Chris Cabba was white, would he have got shot? And would he be dead?

00:23Chris Cabba's not here to answer for himself and to go through a process where there's a judge and there's a jury and for them to come to a conclusion about, you know, what he did or, well, supposedly did.

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