The lessons of the Chris Kaba case

I wonder if we should join with the radical campaigning organisation Buy Larger Mansions (BLM) in order to protest about both the verdict in the Chris Kaba case and indeed the racism inherent in the Metropolitan Police? Perhaps we can get Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer to wear some BLM badges on Match of the Day and recreate the heady, exciting atmosphere of 2020 when white liberals in the US and here decided that George Floyd was a kind of combination of Toussaint Louverture and Rosa Parks, rather than a former criminal jailed eight times, including for robbery with a deadly weapon.

In the Floyd case, the man who killed him, a policeman called Derek Chauvin, was convicted, following a tidal wave of self-pity and self-righteousness and middle-class people taking the knee so often they wore holes in their Silas jeans.