Mark Rowley says claim that officers threatened to hand in weapons over suspension is ‘misreported nonsense’
The new head of the Metropolitan police has dismissed suggestions that firearms officers threatened to walk out of their roles in protest at the suspension of a colleague who fired the shot that killed an unarmed black man.
Chris Kaba was killed after a vehicle stop on 5 September in Streatham Hill, south London, when the Audi he was driving was hemmed in by two police vehicles in Kirkstall Gardens, a narrow residential street, and one round was fired from a police weapon.
