Royal Malaysian Police personnel armed with MP5s
Early Monday morning, after midnight which is around 2 a.m., a schoolboy named Aminulrasyid was shot to death by policemen at Shah Alam. From newspapers, the story goes like this;
… the victim and a schoolmate had gone to Section 7 just after midnight to help a friend who had a flat motorcycle tyre.
It was believed that the victim was then involved in a minor accident after which he was chased by several motorcyclists. Two police cars then joined in the chase.
It was reported that police tried to stop the car by firing several shots at the tyres but one bullet hit Aminulrasyid in the back of his head.
Either you want to believe that or not, that story was told to the reporters by his friend who escaped the scene. A friend who was at his side during the incident. Some reported as saying that the car actually was slowing down because the tyre was shot. It is said that the policemen were using sub-machineguns, which I assume MP5, and witnesses were saying the area was like a battlefield, gun blazing everywhere. Such actions that led to the so-called tragedy is being brought up to the parliamentary cabinet with heavy concerns. As usual, such thing is easy to used for political matters. A lot of questions were brought up and finger-pointing started. Are our policemen considered us as criminal before trials? Why such incident happened? Why the police officers were so harsh in executing actions?
First, we look at our police duty in recent years. Let’s try not to be politic matters, shall we? We know that our country is doing better economically albeit a little bit slow in some parts like experts commented. Thus, more and more foreigners getting in which led to social disasters. Kinda exaggerating but looking at how our maidens were stolen away to Lombok, it is quite a catastrophic event. Also, Indonesian criminals rampantly terrorizing our neighborhoods stealing and raping our people which a friend of mine was nearly raped by such people a couple of weeks ago.
About 5 to 10 years ago, we could see how some policemen were killed in the line of duty. Most of the time, patrols didn’t bring a kind of gunpowder based weapon except maybe a police baton. A good friend of mine whose his father is a policeman did tell me about incidents that led to the death of these law enforcements. Apart from the criminals, the infamous mat rempit who always ran through police barricades also have killed quite a number of these policemen. When the criminals started using guns, more guns were distributed to the police officers. As things can go to the worst possible situation, today’s police would easily gave them an early warning and if they didn’t comply, they also can easily pull the trigger.
In this way, we could see that our police is a bunch trigger-happy guys. Since information and statements from the police side kinda limited and the minister urged them not to say anything until investigation completed, it’s hard to say much about. But let us look from those policemen perspectives. They’re patrolling the area after midnight. They saw a suspicious vehicle and tell them to stop but they ran away. After the warning was not heed, immediate action was taken which is putting some leads to the car and trying to stop it. Because it’s a freaking sub-machinegun that recoils, I can assume that that’s why they got a clean head shot to Aminulrasyid. My only question about their action here is that, why using such weapon in such car chasing case that didn’t fire back? I believe the modus operandi for such thing only applied when chasing armed criminals. Though, my assumption here is that, with TWO police cars chasing along a single car, I can deduce that they might have other operation in the area. Because, a police car that have several officers with such weapons are not your ordinary policemen. This might be a similar case of Korean Air 007 as they might have pursuing other target and then the sad victim of this schoolboy just had to be there getting shot at.
For this kid side, there are a lot of questions that I have to ask. It’s past midnight, why did you go out? Alright, helping your friend but why driving a car? You’re 15 years old and you’re not supposed to drive a car without a license. Heck, you can’t even take a license yet for motorcycle as you’re not 16 years old yet. So, whose car was that? Who gave him permission to drive to car that led to his death? If someone didn’t give him a permission to drive the vehicle, it’s that someone’s fault. Even if he stole the key and drove the car without his parents knowledge, that would totally a blame that I shall put over his parents’ shoulders. Also, a good 15 years old boy who would be having his PMR examination this year should be studying at home and not going out. What his parents do? Plus, that Monday morning, he would have classes at school starting at 7.45 a.m. and why he didn’t sleep yet? A good mother shall tell her child to go to sleep for school rather than letting him going out in the night.
I’ve seen the report. Well, reports can be fabricated. Someone countered this back by saying police’s reports also can be fabricated. I have no argument with that. But what I have wrote up there doesn’t related with the reports at all. Just based on my logical thinking and personal perception. I do concern about how our policemen act harshly in this incident but I concern MORE about letting my child going out past midnight when he will be having a PMR examination this year.
