Cops caught on camera 'executing' criminal (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

I'm not sure if it's amusing or scary reading the comments/listening to people who condone what went down here.

Firstly to those claiming that the criminal would have no problem doing the same to a victim or police officer you are correct, however our police force is supposed to uphold the law...not to bring themselves down to the level of the common criminal by acting as judge, jury and executioner.

Secondly, for those who cannot see what a trend like this will result in the future one only has to look at the likes of Brazil where crime is similarly out of control, police feel nothing to shoot and kill criminals when they could affect an arrest. Has this fixed the problem? No. The result has been that criminals are seldom without firearms, are even more ruthless in how they operate and the cherry on the cake is it's not uncommon for bystanders to be injured/killed by trigger happy cops. I'm sorry, but as bad as our crime level is I don't want to live in that wild west type of scenario.

I can probably understand why the cops shot the guy in cold blood and why people would support this type of behaviour: Emotion. Particularly emotion stemming from frustration with the well known fact that criminals literally and figuratively get away with murder, but having our cops murder...yes murder...criminals in cold blood is uncivilized and dangerous for all of us if it becomes the norm.
 
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Iwojima said:
I'm not sure if it's amusing or scary reading the comments/listening to people who condone what went down here.

Firstly to those claiming that the criminal would have no problem doing the same to a victim or police officer you are correct, however our police force is supposed to uphold the law...not to bring themselves down to the level of the common criminal by acting as judge, jury and executioner.

Secondly, for those who cannot see what a trend like this will result in the future one only has to look at the likes of Brazil where crime is similarly out of control, police feel nothing to shoot and kill criminals when they could affect an arrest. Has this fixed the problem? No. The result has been that criminals are seldom unarmed, are even more ruthless in how they operate and the cherry on the cake is it's not uncommon for bystanders to be injured/killed by trigger happy cops. I'm sorry, but as bad as our crime level is I don't want to live in that wild west type of scenario.

I can probably understand why the cops shot the guy in cold blood and why people would support this type of behaviour: Emotion. Particularly emotion stemming from frustration with the well known fact that criminals literally and figuratively get away with murder, but having our cops murder...yes murder...criminals in cold blood is uncivilized and dangerous for all of us if it becomes the norm.
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criminals are seldomly unarmed in South Africa anyway. Gun control only harmed those civilians in need of protecting themselves. Even the cops are selling guns to the criminals. Easy to talk but unless a strict zero tolerance towards criminals are taken first this crime will keep on spiraling further out of control. To be expected with criminals in power positions in this country.
 
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criminals are seldomly unarmed in South Africa anyway. Gun control only harmed those civilians in need of protecting themselves. Even the cops are selling guns to the criminals. Easy to talk but unless a strict zero tolerance towards criminals are taken first this crime will keep on spiraling further out of control. To be expected with criminals in power positions in this country.
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I was referring to (and have fixed my post to reflect) that the Brazilian criminals no longer bother with anything else other than a gun to affect a crime, adopting a shoot first and run away tactic for something as simple taking handbag off a lady. I'm not saying there aren't examples of the same in SA, but it is far closer to the norm over there. Once again as I mentioned above a well armed, cowboy mentality among their police (and the public in fact) has done nothing to fix this and resulted in an "arms race" of sorts that is escalating the violence of the crimes.
 
imranpanji said:
I didn't see the savage part anywhere. You came up with that yourself
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So explain to me how Sub saharan Africa is not savage at all. Use the examples of violent striking, throwing stones at cars and passersby, violent robberies and any other savage crime like when kids are stabbed for their cell phone you can think off for reference.

Much obliged.
 
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Iwojima said:
I was referring to (and have fixed my post to reflect) that the Brazilian criminals no longer bother with anything else other than a gun to affect a crime, adopting a shoot first and run away tactic for something as simple taking handbag off a lady. I'm not saying there aren't examples of the same in SA, but it is far closer to the norm over there. Once again as I mentioned above a well armed, cowboy mentality among their police (and the public in fact) has done nothing to fix this and resulted in an "arms race" of sorts that is escalating the violence of the crimes.
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We have the same "arms race" for a long time already. The criminals are winning as it's Joe Citizen who are unarmed by the ANC gang and the criminals are armed by rogue police and the black market.
 
Pitbull said:
By all means, my heart is bleeding chocolates for the perp :D

But Randhir has a point though. Where will the line be drawn?
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It goes beyond that. As someone pointed out, how trustable are the cops?

If they are given free rein on executions, is it that far out to imagine them doing this work for drug lords and organised crime syndicates?
 
imranpanji said:
It goes beyond that. As someone pointed out, how trustable are the cops?

If they are given free rein on executions, is it that far out to imagine them doing this work for drug lords and organised crime syndicates?
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No I agree, was disputing what seriously said. Randhir is 100% correct. Can't argue that logic. I agree with both of you :p
 
I'm in two minds over this.

The guy won't be missed by society, but the idea of him being executed in the streets in plain view is worrying.
 
LOL, some people on Facebook etc. It's OK for the cops to execute, but not OK for a cop to slap the bonnet of a car and moer a windgat dude a little.

The cops cannot be trusted to keep their eyes open. Executing that guy is just wrong.
 
imranpanji said:
It goes beyond that. As someone pointed out, how trustable are the cops?

If they are given free rein on executions, is it that far out to imagine them doing this work for drug lords and organised crime syndicates?
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The cops are not trustworthy as all. Many are criminals themselves and giving them carte blanche is worrying indeed. So what is the solution? So far nothing worked to stem the criminal tide!
 
thestaggy said:
I'm in two minds over this.

The guy won't be missed by society, but the idea of him being executed in the streets in plain view is worrying.
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Seems quite a few people given a choice between tolerating the police executing a violent criminal or having him incarcerated for at most a few months before being released to terrorize law abiding citizens again they will go with the former.
 
Pitbull said:
They didn't intent on killing him. They manhandled him and towed him behind a bakkie sure. Still different to being executed in cold blood though.
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Found guilty of murder, so yes, they did.

On 25 August 2015, all eight former police officers were convicted of Macia's murder in the North Gauteng High Court
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Maybe not as clear cut as a bullet at close range but still an execution.
 
HelterSkelter said:
LOL, some people on Facebook etc. It's OK for the cops to execute, but not OK for a cop to slap the bonnet of a car and moer a windgat dude a little.

The cops cannot be trusted to keep their eyes open. Executing that guy is just wrong.
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Please note there seems to be 2 different videos. The one I saw on facebook only showed the second shot, not the execution. Make sure the comments you referring too is on the video showing the execution.
 
Alan said:
Seems quite a few people given a choice between tolerating the police executing a violent criminal or having him incarcerated for at most a few months before being released to terrorize law abiding citizens again they will go with the former.
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The ideal solution is to convict the violent criminal and then execute him.

I'm just not comfortable having a semi-literate cop who has the power to play judge on the spot...
 
Cray said:
Found guilty of murder, so yes, they did.



Maybe not as clear cut as a bullet at close range but still an execution.
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So according to you, beating someone to death is the same as shooting them execution style?

Ok then...
 
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