Is it just me.....or does anyone find it odd that, in the UK, it’s the coroner who decides if a killing is justified or not?
That's not quite right. The police and Crown Prosecution Service decided in this, and other similar cases, that no crime had been committed and therefore no charges were brought. However, a coroner's inquest is still legally required, since there has been a sudden violent death: and 'lawful killing' is one of the verdicts available to the coroner. The decision not to prosecute would have been made long before the inquest took place, so the verdict was really a formality.
does anyone find it odd that, in the UK, it’s the coroner who decides if a killing is justified or not?..Yes. All this time I thought it was the media and NAACP that made those decisions.