maneater

i would like to urge the minister of police to revisit the decision to ban Rubber bullets. i beleive if the poleci were to use those then the damage would have been much less!!
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Tobby

These police are telling lies, they were not attacked, we did not see them being shot but we did see them shooting, shame to you police men
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letsetse

Which Police are talking about ? thugs in uniform
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MommaC

maneater

Agreed.
Nathi has to be one of the most arrogant and clueless ministers in the entire portfolio. What the hell was he thinking?
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hiddengold

Guys please view extract below from TimeLive to gain perspective
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The crowd instead formed a line and, crouching, struck their pangas and sharpened iron rods together to create a war beat. The line slowly advanced towards the police, crossing the barrier line the police had set up. The police opened fire when the strikers attacked an armoured Inyala.

They first used stun grenades and rubber bullets - but when a striker was seen pulling out a shotgun and firing at the police, the police switched to live ammunition.

After the hail of bullets - which was caught by television camera crews - only dust and gunsmoke hung in the air.

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What happened yesterday was an unfortunate incident it is not only what you saw on etv last night that was the end not the beginning
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maneater
i would like to urge the minister of police to revisit the decision to ban Rubber bullets. i beleive if the poleci were to use those then the damage would have been much less!!
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So our police must protect themselves with rubber bullets while the criminals are using real ammunition, I think not. a message must go out to criminals like these that the country is not going to be held hostage by savages.
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DJWinner

Let's see now how are our noisy opposition will use this to score some political points.
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Stumaeza

They were not attacked - they were practicing their shooting skills on our innocent black brothers
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DJWinner

Our condolences to all those who lost their lives.

Lessons learnt from this:
People must listen to the instructions of the police.
People must not go to strikes armed. They may have weapons, but they cannot match the firepower of the police.

I believe there is nothing else that police could have done in that situation.

Since we all now have cool heads, we must now use this opportunity to reconcile and move forward as a safe nation
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mporoza

@ Stumaeza

What do you mean innocent? Those guys where armed, in this case the police did nothing wrong.


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