There has been a lot of talk of killing suspects by the Police or by victims. Keeping in mind that human life is the highest value that we collectively have. What is you opinion?
There has been a lot of talk of killing suspects by the Police or by victims. Keeping in mind that human life is the highest value that we collectively have. What is you opinion?
I am referring to murders either by government officials or civilians not government capital punishment. The DR does not have the death penalty by statute.
I am referring to murders either by government officials or civilians not government capital punishment. The DR does not have the death penalty by statute.
We are talking about hypothetical situations. Here is a real case. I was shot in the throat by 2 guys - well one pulled the trigger and the other one told him to - dale. They were arrested. One had a Canadian girlfriend who paid 1000 US$ to get them both out. Out within 2 weeks. 3 months later they beat an old Canadian man to death with baseball bats. Both arrested and sentenced to 30 years. A year later their sister pays 16,000 RD$ and gets them out again. They went back to their casita which was around 500 metres from my house.
So, what would you do???
Matilda
Last year I witnessed a police assassination in Barahona, where two prisoners that were taken to the public hospital tried to escape and one (unarmed) was killed by the police. He was shot from a distance, completely disabled and writhing on the ground, then the police officer came up and shot him point blank in the leg at a spot where he would bleed out. The police would not allow anyone near him or take him to the hospital. Dozens of people, including doctors from the hospital, watched as he bleed out and died over a period of THIRTY MINUTES. Half an hour after he died, an hour after being shot, and after the school children had already passed by to check out the dead body, did they roll out a stretcher from the morgue to pick him up. BTW, the emergency room was closer than the morgue...
I was inside a nearby building with headphones on, and when I came out he had just died, but I collected pics of when he was just shot and still alive, with time tags, in case anyone is interested or knows where I could send them to where it would actually matter. One of the photos shows the guy sitting up in the street after being shot. All of this was reported to the local police and reported in local media as a police assassination, but nothing has happened and this was in November of 2010.
Matan un recluso de dos que intentaron escaparse en las afuera del hospital Jaime Mota de Barahona; la custodia policial resulto herido : Cuatriboliao.Net
Then again, if I cause to much of a stir the police might just execute me too.
Fortunately, most Bad Guys know that.In the DR justice by your peers still is alive and well...
Those actions are occuring because many people believe that the National Police is not doing enough to arrest most criminals when they do one of their 'trades.'Fortunately, most Bad Guys know that.
My ATF Dominican Street Justice act was the ladrone in San Cristobal, 3-4 years ago, who went one step too far and stole a girls passola. A mob chased him on motos, caught him, beat him with concrete block and wooden sticks, stabbed him, shot him and then wheeled the limp body around the streets for 3 hours before unceremonously dumping him in the doorstep of a public hospital, thoroughly dead.
That makes a statement.