Colin Brazier, a former broadcaster for GB News, has blasted the BBC’s coverage of the Chris Kaba case, describing it as “bilge”.
The British broadcaster faced scrutiny after it claimed in an article that black communities were “really traumatised” after a police officer who shot Kaba was cleared of murder.
Kaba, 24, was shot through the front windscreen of an Audi Q8 in Streatham, south-east London, on September 5, 2022.
A BBC report, which said that the outcome of the case “really traumatised” black people in south London, has been blasted for generalising an entire community.
The inability to veer from a pre-written script, to peddle dogma as fact, is killing BBC News. Too many of its staff care more for awards and the approval of peers, than they do inconvenient truths.
Spout your bilge.
Just don’t expect license fee payers to fund your activism. https://t.co/6EneACSaRJ— Colin Brazier (@ColinBrazierTV) October 23, 2024
Brazier commented on X: “The inability to veer from a pre-written script, to peddle dogma as fact, is killing BBC News.
“Too many of its staff care more for awards and the approval of peers, than they do inconvenient truths. Spout your bilge. Just don’t expect license fee payers to fund your activism.”
In another post he added: “The BBC seemed reluctant to acknowledge a jury’s decision to acquit a policeman who shot a suspect.
“Its coverage betrayed a sense the BBC is more influenced by the diktats of unconscious bias training than it is by a legal system centuries in the making.”
The quote in the BBC’s article came from Anthony King, a local youth crime campaigner, who told the broadcaster that “many people have concerns” and are “really traumatised”.
Political commentator Matt Goodwin waded in on the debate, stating: “Presumably they feel traumatised by the murders, stabbings, drugs, and carnage Chris Kaba and his gang imposed on their communities.”
After the judge lifted reporting restrictions, it was revealed Kaba was a core member of a notorious south London gang and was accused of being the gunman in an alleged bid to murder a rival in a nightclub just days before he was killed.
Norman Brennan, a retired police officer and leading campaigner on police protection said: “Apparently the BBC are stating that shooting of Chris Kaba has left the Black Community Traumatised!
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“NO NO NO it’s NOT the Police leaving the BC Traumatised it was Chris Kaba & his Gang Murdering Shooting & Stabbing Black People that’s left them Traumatised! Let’s get it Right.”
Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick also said: “This is a dire piece of journalism which will damage public trust in the BBC. One man does not speak for the whole of society.
“The overwhelming majority of the British public’s thoughts are with Sgt Blake – who bravely put his life on the line to protect the public – and Chris Kaba’s victims.”
Samuel Kasumu, the former Tory candidate for Mayor of London wrote on social media: “The majority of black people are not ‘traumatised’ by this unfortunate case.
“The majority of black people would have stopped and complied with the police officers. The majority of black people are law abiding citizens.”
