London Mayor Sadiq Khan has faced backlash for refusing to apologize to the firearms officer involved in the Chris Kaba shooting, after previously expressing sympathies for Kaba, a young gang member who was killed.

During a City Hall session, former mayoral candidate Susan Hall demanded Khan apologize, arguing he should have shown greater support for police rather than increasing tensions among minority groups by calling Kaba’s death "a young life cut short." Hall asserted Khan's approach deepened the existing confidence crisis in the police.

She questioned his initial response, including statements from London bodies that linked Chris Kaba's shooting to "the fight against systematic racism".

She demanded to know what briefing the Mayor had received in relation to the thug's background and criminal record prior to making the inflammatory statements or before the shooting.

Mr Khan said he could not remember receiving any briefing to this effect, despite the Met Police Commissioner - also in attendance - suggesting it was standard for the Mayor and Home Secretary to be briefed.

The Met Commissioner said he also could not remember if the Mayor had been briefed, due to the simultaneous pressures of having to deal with the death of The Queen.

Ms Hall blasted: "They had a two-tonne Audi being aimed at them! When are we all going to start supporting the police in a better way?"

"Two years [Sgt. Martyn Blake] has had to put up with this, two years the Metropolitan Police have had to put up with this. Two years of you being on one side.

"This is not good enough! Would you like to apologise to the police officer that has been found not guilty?"

Ms Hall later accused Sadiq Khan's response to the demand of being "waffle".

Mr Khan's performance during the GLA session has since been blasted, with Ms Hall saying "Londoners deserve better. The Met Police deserve better... London's Black community deserves better."

"Sadiq Khan is the Police & Crime Commissioner and today has shown a shocking dereliction of his responsibilities to London."

Fellow Tory, Lord Bailey of Paddington, later pressed the Mayor on whether or not he agreed with black parents that the tone of his statements had legitimised the terror and violence that gangs in London are carrying out.

Mr Khan demonstrated his usual tact, dismissing the question and saying that Lord Bailey had "got his Twitter clip".

Lord Bailey similarly blasted Mr Khan, accusing him of "petulance, politicking, and game-playing".

"How he thinks that his childish dismissal of these concerns is appropriate is beyond me."