International rock group The Killers will rock South Africa next month

The Killers are coming to South Africa next month and our deputy police minister says the killing of the innocent is unavoidable – coincidence?
The DC sniper just got killed by lethal injection, the Las Vegas rock group The Killers is coming to South Africa and deputy national police minister Fikile Mbalula says the killing of the innocent by the boys in blue is “unavoidable”.
Now that’s just too much killing for one week.

Mbalula recently said that it was unavoidable that innocent civilians will get shot in the crossfire between police and criminals. “In the course of any duty the innocent will be victimised,” Mbalula told reporters in Parliament. “In this particular situation where you are caught in combat with criminals, innocent people are going to die not deliberately but in the exchange of fire. They are going to be caught on the wrong side, not deliberately but unavoidably.”
But this still does not explain how the police shot dead a toddler in Midrand after they mistook the metal pipe three-year-old Atlegang Aphane was holding for a firearm.
Let’s say the three-year-old was carrying a real gun, he still wouldn’t pose a threat to the lives of trained adult police.
“We cannot say to the police, retreat. We cannot say to South Africans, despair. Our job is to give people hope. Yes. Shoot the bastards. Hard-nut to crack, incorrigible bastards,” said Mbalula.
I do not believe three year-old can be all that. It reminds me of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff song: “Sheriff John Brown always hated me, For what, I don’t know: Every time I plant a seed, He said kill it before it grow – He said kill them before they grow”.
I guess we will soon be singing this song in court trying to defend ourselves for defending our three year-olds from the police.
But then Zuma again told the police that they don’t have the licence to use lethal force except where allowed by the law.
While the police minister Nathi Mthethwa, his deputy Mbalula and national commissioner Bheki Cele want to make an example of criminals, they should also do the same for these cops who shot the three year-old.
I would like to hear them argue in court how the toddler had threatened their lives whith a piece of pipe that they “mistook for a gun”.
Kids do carry toy guns all the time, so does that mean our children will be shot on site for carrying what looks like a real gun?
What if I am carrying a keyring that is shaped in the form of a gun – I do have one from 10 years ago. Will it make a difference to the cops that this keyring gun is the size of a football refereeing whistle?
I guess not.

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