On 1/21/11, Steve Muchai <
smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Odhiambo Washington
> <
odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Liwindi,
>>
>> There is already in place laws to deal with misuse of firearms by officers
>> of the disciplined forces. Within these setups, there are very strict ways
>> for accounting for any weapons used (read bullets), and internal processes
>> are there to determine if such use is legal.
>
> Wash,
>
> Then the rules simply don't work.
>
> 9 Dec 2009: my cousin Martin is jacked by thugs, who then abandon him
> and jack a couple. They take his car keys. Neighbours who respond to
> the alarm, and some two APs, determine he's not one of the thugs when
> they search him and his car. A few minutes later, regulars come and
> shoot him four times at point-blank range. On 11th Dec I identify his
> body at City Morgue, and when we inquire further, the coverup story is
> that there was a shootout, another story that he had an AK, another
> one that he had a pistol, then another story that he was running away
> (never mind all the entry wounds are up front, and there were
> eyewitnesses) etc....
>
> October 2010: Nganga Kariuki and his sister are carjacked at gunpoint.
> They're cornered by cops, the thugs bolt, but the cops still spray the
> car with bullets and kill the 23-year old and injure his sister.
>
> November 2010: Rachel Nduta (a friend and Family Bank employee) is
> attacked by thugs who abandon her car and bundle her into the one
> they've already jacked. They're cornered, she identifies herself and
> pleads to be spared, but the cops shoot her over 10 times point blank.
> They also do the same to the owner of the car she was in.
>
> These are all people I knew personally, dead at the hands of police,
> within one year. In all these cases, they were innocent, and had the
> cops arrested them and verified their story, they'd be alive today.
> I'm not trying to exonerate the guys who were killed, but all I'm
> trying to say here is that whenever you read in the news that some
> "notorious elements" were shot dead "after engaging my boys in a
> shootout", take it with a pinch of salt.
>
> BR
> S
>
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