WHEN POLICE BECOME ENEMIES

The police brutally beat civilians

I was deeply affected when I read the story about a group of police officers who brutally beat a mine worker to death in Shamva. What also worried me is that this attack was over goods allegedly stolen from the senior officer’s wife,according to "myzimbabwe.com", the wife had lost a purse which contained a $1 note. Surely how can such a case drive the security officers to savagely assault a man till he dies from his injuries? What the police did was unacceptable and inhuman .This behavior among police angers me in the sense that they are the ones who are supposed to protect citizens not the ones to instil harm. However Zimbabwe has become a place where no one feels at ease or safe  if the police are around.People  succumb to fear even if they just happen to come across a policeman walking by, wearing his uniform and carrying a baton stick . The police have lost the trust of the people as they have become perpetrators of violence.It is their duty to instil law and order in the country but instead they go about perpetrating violence to innocent individuals.My wish for these police officers who committed this hideous crime is that they must be severely punished without any leniency.Even if it means that they are sentenced to 40 years in jail or even given a life sentence, so be it.

http://www.myzimbabwe.co.zw/news/police-kill-mine-worker-in-shamva-over-a-missing-purse-with-1.html
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