I’m shocked to read reports on brutal murders and mindless assaults, especially of students. Here in this part of the globe, in Hyderabad in Southern India, I have seen huge police force spraying rubber bullets, throwing tear gas shells and spanking students right left and center inside a university campus. That too, on regular intervals. Police have their justification and so has the government. If this tyranny is to quell an agitation that has been active for the past 60 years, elsewhere in the globe there such things happen for reasons that none can understand.
A report that appeared last week from the other hemisphere is appalling. On October 6, a police officer shot dead a fresher at the University of South Alabama in cold blood.
Gil Collar, all of 18 was found naked with no weapons whatsoever. CBS news reported that Gil Collar was fatally wounded about 1:30 a.m. after an officer heard a bang on a window and went outside to investigate.
The report further says quoting university spokesman Keith Ayers that Collar assumed a “fighting stance” and chased an officer before being shot. The officer tried to retreat numerous times to defuse the situation before opening fire, the school was quoted as saying.
There are police brutalities everywhere in world. It’s in China, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, US, UK…
Only the other day I was editing an article written by a retired IPS officer, justifying police brutality. Whatever, I find it difficult to put up with these excesses. Police should be a friend and guide if not the philosopher.
If you too feel the same way I feel, talk about it, at least among your friend!
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