00:00There's always going to be in these moments during an investigation a lack of public information
00:07and we're always going to see a range of conjecture and some of it nonsense on social
00:13media and that's unavoidable. But I think what's helpful is wherever possible
00:22to recognise that cases like this for me, this case particularly prompts three sort of issues for
00:30debate. Firstly of course there is sympathy for a family regardless of the circumstances and
00:35recognising that particularly in that context of rumour these incidents can fall heavy on
00:42communities. But secondly empathy for officers and the role that they do in the challenging
00:49situation they face. Having regular coffees with Martin Blake over recent months
01:02I've been astounded by his personal resilience and dignity with what the world has thrown at
01:10him and his family which has turned their life upside down when he was confronting a dangerous
01:17criminal on behalf of us all. He would be the first to say he expected full accountability.
01:28Normally that would be done in an inquest. Many of us were surprised it was done through a murder
01:31trial but normally that would just be done in an inquest. But regardless of that he expects
01:36that accountability. But the third point I think it prompts is
01:42I think making this about race is a sort of dangerous and helpful conversation.
01:54The 6-7 gang are a dangerous gang. They're amongst the most dangerous gangs in London.
02:01We reckon they've got about 95 core members. This year so far we're into more than double figures of
02:08boys who we sort of rescued from exploitation by the gang and we all know the pathway sort of 12,
02:1513, 14 year olds been drawn into gangs, bullied, coerced in a vulnerable sort of position running
02:20drugs and they're the gang leaders of the future and that's a sad sad cycle.
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