Loop finger pointing

Got into the exam hall just in the nick of time.
Bloody traffic jams.. (I swear, Malaysia is getting way too populated.)
Not only was I late, I had a massive stomach cramp. Sial je.
And the paper was NOT easy. Tambah lagi sialan.
*Sigh*

But it is over and done with. *huge weight lifted*

There was some pretty interesting news today. A high school boy was shoot dead by a policeman today.



To be quite honest, my initial reaction after reading the whole report was; when it comes down to it, twas a mistake. Albeit a deadly mistake.

It surprised me how the parent of the boy was so quick to blame the police for what happened to her son. Yes, I do understand that the boy lost his life. It must be very traumatizing to learn that your child is no longer with you. It's a great loss and my prayers go out to him.

But the fact was, he was out joy riding at 2am. He's 15 for god's sake! (Anyways, wasn't it a school night?) There's no doubt that he doesn't have a licence to drive the car, but what baffles me is how he got hold of the goddamn car in the first place? And there was a machete in the car! If that doest show flawed parenting, I don't know what does..

Sure, kids get into all kinds of shenanigans. It's in their nature. But when a kid gets access to a car, drives recklessly on a public road (it was reported that he ran several red lights) and could potentially hurt or even kill not only himself, but also innocent others. That's just plain wrong.

In hind sight, it was more likely that he could have lost his life in an accident rather than being shot. And if that were to happen, who should the parents blame? The other driver? My point is that he could just have easily gotten hurt any other way. In this case, the police were merely scape goats. Someone to blame for a sad sad event.

A policeman's duty is to protect the public from harm -and in this (rare) case, they're actually doing their job. They are trained to react to potentially dangerous and aggressive baddies. Logically speaking, if you're a police officer and it's at 2am in the morning with a person in a car who's clearly trying to escape arrest and is suspected to be a robber, would you have reasonably suspected that the person in the car was just a kid or somebody who can potentially hurt you?

Normally I'd never give sympathy to the police (I do not like them very much I'm afraid..) But just because a person is a police officer does not mean he does not fear for his life. He has a family too. I doubt that he wants to lose that..

D. Shahrizat may be right; those with licence to firearms should only fire as a last resort. And even then, only as self defense. There is still a possibility that the tragic death was caused by an error of judgement. He now has blood on is hands. The thought of that alone would haunt him for the rest of his life.

It saddens me that people are so quick to judge. Though it was reported that the kid did try to run over the cop, and that the cop was trying to aim at the tyres or that the cop was supposed to be only on desk duty -all that are yet to be proven.With information on the case still hazy (at best), there's already blogs and facebook pages being set up to boycott the police. Things should be critically analyzed before action is taken. People shouldn't be so rash as to point the fingers at anyone just yet. The best thing to do is have a good look at yourselves first.