GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry clashed fiercely with former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie during a heated debate about whether defendants should be named in court cases.The pair locked horns over the case of Metropolitan Police officer Sergeant Martyn Blake, who was cleared of murder after fatally shooting Chris Kaba in 2022.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00on this um well armed police are on our streets every day they're just i'm no fan of police we
00:08know from over the past few years that things have come out about some officers um their views
00:13on race their views on on uh on women that are pretty appalling but when it comes to the armed
00:18police compared to the rest of the world we have a pretty good record of our officers um and how
00:23they don't just go in and discharge their guns they are planning apprehending dangerous criminals
00:28violent criminals every day as calvin said earlier actually you can go on youtube i often watch
00:33videos on youtube of the police going and arresting people um for entertainment this this officer
00:38martin blake was cleared in court he then returned to its work was promoted to inspector
00:45i would presume that this internal trial now will common sense will prevail and and there
00:52would no further action taken against him what this should do for the public who are critical
00:56of the police as i am in most cases this is nice it's nice because there's transparency
01:01so anyone who says well the court said he did anything wrong but what what do the police say
01:05okay well the police can look into it and their independent commission can check it and they can
01:09say actually we think he acted lawfully and he says that he he felt that his officers were in danger
01:14because from the video you see chris cabba who was a violent criminal ramming the car back and forth
01:19and you hope that common sense prevails and then everyone who who has an issue with the decision
01:23can stand back and say well it was independently investigated and he's been let off
01:28i'll tell you what i have an issue with i noticed you just named the man there and of course he was
01:32named by the court and i thought that was such an appalling thing to name that man he wasn't found
01:37guilty uh of the crimes that were put to him in fact actually he was found innocent of the crime
01:42put to him i think it was such a scandal so disgraceful and inappropriate that that man was
01:48ever named he is now hugely at risk and he's been found in a court of law to be innocent yeah no i
01:54completely agree with you but you just named him again i deliberately don't do that right i've named
01:58him again because he's been named in the public spending court he's named in the i i i think that's
02:02a ridiculous point by the way what mine yeah get out i warned you i think it's a poor point i mean he
02:08appeared in front of the old bailey i mean uh and the truth about the matter is that when you appear
02:14at the senior court uh you are going to be named and it's always the case and i'm glad i'm glad it
02:19is because that's the way justice is seen so i'm i i am pleased he was named you won't be pleased if
02:24you were the person that was a public servant that was operating in the uh duties that were requested
02:30of you that that absolutely believe that you were told to have gone for the premises of your point was
02:37that the cps had decided that you had done something criminal and that a jury should decide whether
02:42you were guilty or not guilty of it so i'm afraid that i think the argument collapses like that there
02:48is an argument here though that the man had been put been absolutely tortured his own he's been tortured
02:53uh i think it took three years of his life certainly two and a half years of his life and finally he
03:01comes free right and uh i i love jj's point that we have armed police and there are there are there
03:09are bad apples in in in every police force and in every walk of life i would even think there might
03:15even be presenters out there to whom you wouldn't care to spend an evening with you know what i mean