Earlier this month 24-year-old Chris Kaba, an unarmed black man, was shot dead by a Metropolitan Police officer in an incident which immediately triggered protests on the streets of London.
The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) has said its homicide investigation into the shooting by a specialist firearms officer may take between six and nine months.
But while much of the media focus has been on Kaba being black and unarmed, there has been little focus on south London’s gang feuds, fuelled by drill music, which may hold the key to why armed police targeted the car he was in that fatal night….