In the late hours of last Sunday evening a woman was shot dead by police. The car the woman was driving in was thought to be hijacked; the police spotted the car and chased after it. Apparently when the car did not stop, after asking them to pull over, police fired at the car, shooting a woman in the head and injuring two others.
An article was written,”'Shoot to kill' cops: A mother's anguish” on 13 October. Honestly, this article is inadequate to be on the Times Live web page. The article consists of quotes from shaken up members of the family and emotional members of the incident, threatening the police and politicians. They have even asked Zuma to apologize, asking him to take the blame. I think what the police did was horrifying and there is no question that they should be punished; but not the president though. Unduly the article makes out as if the incident is Zuma’s fault.
Our president recently had a meeting in which he urged police to take lethal action if they were in danger but to not be “trigger happy”, which was stated in a more fair-minded article: “No ‘Shoot to Kill’ order”. This article is an even-handed look at both sides of the story and contains appropriate quotes; unlike the other article, which also included a series of one worded quotes. I think that blaming Zuma and setting an article out to look as though he should be made accountable for the incident is ludicrous.
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