Seems like a manslaughter - if not murder - charge is appropriate here. If an innocent person is shot as a policeman seeks to recover his firearm from someone who snatched it, then the snatcher is accountable. If the policeman discharges his weapon at a person fleeing arrest for a marijuana joint, and an innocent person is hit and killed, then this excessive and improper use of a firearm in such a case, makes the policeman accountable. This is no accidental shooting. This is the result of somebody's criminal action. Let's find out who it is.
The other daily does the same silly thing. So much for maturity and viewing readers as mature.
"INEXPLICABLE", Anil??!!!! Come see any of us in this thread - we could explain it easy, easy, for you.....or, go sit with the DPP - he should be able to do a better job.
"PROUD", Anil??!!! When this entire episode is over and completed in the courts, tell us then, again, how proud you are.
Come on, Administrator, please publish my most benign contribution. This snatching of good posts is what keeps me away for months!
Hopefully, these public words the Acting Commissioner has declared in response to Bakr's comments are not the same opinion he has privately, or professionally. (And hopefully, he has - more than mere opinion, privately and professionally - an ACTION plan) There are times when a Commissioner of Police may need to be a diplomat; but I hope this Commissioner understands that he must ALWAYS be a detective. Bakr's comments are NOT to be taken at face value, unless that detective is a defective. As a citizen of T and T, with fresh memories of 1990, I'd sleep better tonight if I had a detective for Commissioner, rather than diplomat, given these not-to-be-taken-as-vacuous rantings of Bakr, that destroyer of men.
AND - to add to your reply to MalaysiaTrini - neither of those two issues from which we are supposed to have "moved on" - as well as several others since and in between - has been RESOLVED with any measure of TRANSPARENCY or ACCOUNTABILITY.
Wait! The PM is a prophetess now? HUMBLED! This is indeed how she shall feel the night of the next general elections - she, along with all the pathetic incompetents who form the government, whose performance, via the same poll over which she is humbled, demands humiliation instead.
This is unforgivable. Not even an apology from Mr. Williams would suffice. While an apology might (for the eternally optimistic) remove offense, it would not remove his mindset out of which the comment emanated - a mindset which undermines any confidence anyone could have in him as an impartial defender of the law, and relentless pursuer of criminals, regardless of any assumed reason for the crime. Were Mr. Williams British, and serving in that country as Commissioner, we would hear of his resignation by tomorrow morning.
Good for the PM! Bad for her government! Therefore, still bad for the nation, unless she follows the logic, values and principles she knows in law and in her heart, and let the chips fall where they will. But no matter what the polls say now, it is tough to erase, in the next 11.9 months, what the last 4 years have told the rest of us...
Having seen some appalling comments myself in various media in response to the viral video, I have the following position, which by no means is exhaustive:
Once we are able to remove from this discussion
(1) the highly emotive arguments
(2) the fallacious position that ONLY experience as a parent can afford a person an appreciation for matters involving punishing a child
(3) the confusing of punishment with discipline and
(4) the confusing of discipline with training,
ONLY then would we arrive at a sensible position on corporal punishment of a child, especially a child of teen years and especially when that punishment is emblazoned across the globe in a medium that guarantees its longevity (and concomitant, and unnecessary, and unfair permanence) way into the adulthood of this, now, child. Perhaps the cheerleaders for this particular episode could tell us the impact that fact is likely to have on that, then, woman.
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