Today, as a special treat, two articles.
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[td] The woman, named by The National newspaper as Kepari Leniata, 20, was reportedly tortured with a branding iron and tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tyres.
According to the rival Post-Courier newspaper she was torched by villagers who claimed she killed a six-year-old boy through sorcery, with police outnumbered by onlookers and unable to intervene. [/td]
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If that wasn't strange enough.
[QUOTE] Police arrested dozens of people last year linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises.
There have been several other cases of witchcraft and cannibalism in PNG in recent years, with a man reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony in 2011. [/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/9854526/Sorceress-burned-alive-in-Papua-New-Guinea.html"]Source[/URL]
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A police commander, Teddy Tei, said an angry crowd claimed two elderly women had killed the eight-year-old, but that police believed she had been "gang-raped and killed by two known suspects".
The suspects were among the crowd attacking the women, who were tied to poles and about to be burnt. Also present was a "glassman" - a man who claimed to have supernatural powers and who had identified the luckless women as sorcerers and claimed they were responsible for the child's death. [/td]
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[QUOTE]The act is under review and the PNG Constitutional and Law Reform Commission has recommended that it be repealed.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/9870321/Police-save-sorcerers-after-mob-try-to-burn-them-alive-in-Papua-New-Guinea.html"]Source[/URL]
Teddy Tei is probably one of the best names a police officer can have.
[quote]According to the rival Post-Courier newspaper she was torched by villagers who claimed she killed a six-year-old boy through sorcery, with [B]police outnumbered by onlookers and unable to intervene[/B].[/quote]
Are the Police not armed in PNG?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;39619895]Are the Police not armed in PNG?[/QUOTE]
What are they supposed to do?
Shoot them all?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;39619895]Are the Police not armed in PNG?[/QUOTE]
What are they going to do, shoot into a crowd and get lynched?
Send in a gunboat!
[QUOTE=Rents;39619911]What are they going to do, shoot into a crowd and get lynched?[/QUOTE]
Open fire and kill them all. I'd do it. I'd be like a super cop [video=youtube;E94MUnIulxI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94MUnIulxI[/video]
Then I'd use my night stick and take the rest out 300 style.
I guess the 21st centuries older brother got released from prison again..
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;39619843]Well, it's what you get when you weigh the same as a duck.[/QUOTE]
I'm going to hell.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;39619909]What are they supposed to do?
Shoot them all?[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Rents;39619911]What are they going to do, shoot into a crowd and get lynched?[/QUOTE]
Well we don't know how many were there on either side, so I guess it's hard to judge without the fact.
Ideally though, they'd shoot the executioner and the rest will stand down.
[QUOTE=Blade_Raider;39619922]Open fire and kill them all. I'd do it. I'd be like a super cop[/QUOTE]
A "super cop" doesn't kill loads of people. That's just murder.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;39619909]What are they supposed to do?
Shoot them all?[/QUOTE]
Yes please.
[QUOTE=Blade_Raider;39619922]Open fire and kill them all. I'd do it. I'd be like a super cop [video=youtube;E94MUnIulxI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94MUnIulxI[/video]
Then I'd use my night stick and take the rest out 300 style.[/QUOTE]
Out
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;39620216]A "super cop" doesn't kill loads of people. That's just murder.[/QUOTE]
Not if those people are actively participating in a murder.
[QUOTE=Falubii;39621876]Not if those people are actively participating in a murder.[/QUOTE]
onlookers =/= participants
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;39621962]onlookers =/= participants[/QUOTE]
If they'd tried to hinder the officers then they're aiding the murder, if they were just staring then the officers were just too scared to try to do something.
If the police were armed, couldn't they fire a shot to get everyone's attention so that they'd get the fuck out of the way?
EDIT: For anyone who'd disagree on if it would work, if you've heard a gunshot, that wasn't a .22LR, whoever fired it would definitely have your attention.
[I][B]Making soup out of their penises.[/B][/I]
[video=youtube;im_5QdHp04E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_5QdHp04E[/video]
[QUOTE=Blade_Raider;39619922]Open fire and kill them all. I'd do it. I'd be like a super cop [video=youtube;E94MUnIulxI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94MUnIulxI[/video]
Then I'd use my night stick and take the rest out 300 style.[/QUOTE]
shit man i LOVE that movie
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;39620216]A "super cop" doesn't kill loads of people. That's just murder.[/QUOTE]
They're preventing police from saving the victims. Who cares?
[QUOTE=Blade_Raider;39625020]They're preventing police from saving the victims. [B]Who cares?[/B][/QUOTE]
Are you insane? Murdering a mass crowd of people isn't okay. Yes, I get that they are freaks by blocking the way.
But as a cop, you've got to have better standards than just killing off a load of people to save one person.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;39619834]Teddy Tei is probably one of the best names a police officer can have.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a Thai prostitute.
[editline]18th February 2013[/editline]
And I should know because I'm Norwegian.
[QUOTE=andololol;39622096]Police logic:
Cheering onlookers = Supporters = Potential Criminals[/QUOTE]
That doesn't make it okay to gun them all down.
Wouldn't really make sense to kill alot of people just to save one even if the lot of them are actually killing the one.
[QUOTE=mac338;39630456]Sounds like a Thai prostitute.
[editline]18th February 2013[/editline]
And I should know because I'm Norwegian.[/QUOTE]
Why doesn't I, Danish man, know that...
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;39625037]Are you insane? Murdering a mass crowd of people isn't okay. Yes, I get that they are freaks by blocking the way.
But as a cop, you've got to have better standards than just killing off a load of people to save one person.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Falchion;39631373]Wouldn't really make sense to kill alot of people just to save one even if the lot of them are actually killing the one.[/QUOTE]
In the United States, Police are authorised to use lethal force if their life or the life of a civilian is in imminent danger. It would be legally justified to take out the whole crowd if they all actively participated in attempted murder of the woman or the officers.
By your logic, it's not okay for a SWAT team to kill a group of armed terrorists to save a hostage, because it would involve more death than it prevents, ignoring the fact that the terrorists are the ones threatening life in the first place. It's not about killing the terrorists because they deserve it, it's about neutralising the terrorists to preserve the hostages life.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;39619909]What are they supposed to do?
Shoot them all?[/QUOTE]
If they're all about to commit a crime, yes (and I don't mean they should shoot all the onlookers but the ones who were helping to keep the women tied and trying to burn them). Or shoot at the air, that ought to scare some of them.
[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;39632396]If they're all about to commit a crime, yes (and I don't mean they should shoot all the onlookers but the ones who were helping to keep the women tied and trying to burn them). Or shoot at the air, that ought to scare some of them.[/QUOTE]
If they were onlookers then there would be no reason to shoot them.
Which they were.
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