[b]The policeman who shot an innocent civilian should have been disarmed and handed over to the police for trial on charges of murder. To prevent the case file from "vanishing", that handover of the culprit should have been carried out in front of invited members of the press, both local and international, if possible. On several occasions in Nigeria's recent history, serving policemen were handed the death penalty as a consequence of extra-judicial killings perpetrated while in uniform. Short of outright war, there is NO circumstance under which it should be acceptable for civilians to commit lynch-mob murders, EVEN IF the victim of that lynching was SEEN and CAUGHT in the act of homicide. The minute it becomes socially acceptable for an impromptu lynch mob to form and descend on a victim in the street, a floodgate of evil is opened, lending an air of "normalcy" to the notion of baying mobs beating to death and then incinerating motorists whose cars hit pedestrians due to brake failure, or women whose unconventional behavior leads to frivolous suspicions of "witchcraft", or non-violent petty thieves and pick-pockets who pilfer handfuls of loose change to buy a meal. Many of the participants in Nigeria's culture of jungle justice show up at the scene afterthe mob victim is already in the throes of death, AND YET, those "God Fearing" passers-by never hesitate to attack the human being on the ground with gleeful ferocity, JUST on the strength of unproven or unprovable accusations leveled by the crowd at their silenced victim. Killing another human being in the context of self-defence could be defensible in the court of law, depending on mitigating factors in favor of the accused, BUT, there is absolutely NO provision in the constitution or judicial system of ANY civilized nation on this planet, which condones or encourages vigilante mob murder as a substitute for due process in the court of law. No private citizen has the right to inflict ANY punitive measure to address perceived offences OUTSIDE of the universally recognized progression of arrest, arraignment, trial and sentencing effected ONLY by officers and officials of the legitimate law and judiciary.[/b] @ Jakumo, thanks for the insight.But sometimes Jungle Justice is is the fastest and best way to mete judgement on some people who do not control their morbid and insatiable appetite to inflict pain on others.

[b]The policeman who shot an innocent civilian should have been disarmed and handed over to the police for trial on charges of murder. To prevent the case file from "vanishing", that handover of the culprit should have been carried out in front of invited members of the press, both local and international, if possible. On several occasions in Nigeria's recent history, serving policemen were handed the death penalty as a consequence of extra-judicial killings perpetrated while in uniform.

Short of outright war, there is NO circumstance under which it should be acceptable for civilians to commit lynch-mob murders, EVEN IF the victim of that lynching was SEEN and CAUGHT in the act of homicide. The minute it becomes socially acceptable for an impromptu lynch mob to form and descend on a victim in the street, a floodgate of evil is opened, lending an air of "normalcy" to the notion of baying mobs beating to death and then incinerating motorists whose cars hit pedestrians due to brake failure, or women whose unconventional behavior leads to frivolous suspicions of "witchcraft", or non-violent petty thieves and pick-pockets who pilfer handfuls of loose change to buy a meal.

Many of the participants in Nigeria's culture of jungle justice show up at the scene afterthe mob victim is already in the throes of death, AND YET, those "God Fearing" passers-by never hesitate to attack the human being on the ground with gleeful ferocity, JUST on the strength of unproven or unprovable accusations leveled by the crowd at their silenced victim. Killing another human being in the context of self-defence could be defensible in the court of law, depending on mitigating factors in favor of the accused, BUT, there is absolutely NO provision in the constitution or judicial system of ANY civilized nation on this planet, which condones or encourages vigilante mob murder as a substitute for due process in the court of law.

No private citizen has the right to inflict ANY punitive measure to address perceived offences OUTSIDE of the universally recognized progression of arrest, arraignment, trial and sentencing effected ONLY by officers and officials of the legitimate law and judiciary.[/b]



@ Jakumo, thanks for the insight.But sometimes Jungle Justice is is the fastest and best way to mete judgement on some people who do not control their morbid and insatiable appetite to inflict pain on others.

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