, Chandigarh , Dehradun, Social media videos showed some panic buying taking place, with long queues forming outside local shops minutes after Mr Modi’s lockdown message on Tuesday night.
India as a whole has more than 600 confirmed coronavirus cases and 10 deaths, with the number rising as the government finally rolls out more widespread testing. However, the key concern of those analysing policy on the use of lethal force should not be what police intend to do when they fire their weapons, but rather the circumstances which support that decision. The shooting of the innocent Muslim in the Underground is based on an actual event, the shooting of an innocent Brazilian on 22 July 2005 whom police thought to be a Muslim terrorist about to detonate a suicide bomb. (2) Do "Trespassers will be Shot" signs have any legal effect? As one of the world’s largest democracies, Indonesia should in theory be well positioned to act in concert with the United States in promoting a secure, rules-based order across the Indo-Pacific. In recent years, this subjective test has underpinned the decision not to prosecute officers following the death of Jean Charles De Menezes at Stockwell tube station in 2005 and the verdict of lawful killing in the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan in 2011.
You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Against a backdrop of increased police militarisation, police chiefs in the UK have announced a more aggressive policy on the use of lethal force. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. In both cases the police erroneously believed the deceased to be armed at the point of opening fire. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. While U.S. State Department officials in 2011 stated that they would not intervene in the case,17 it is uncertain whether officials in the Trump administration would respond with similar restraint. With this in mind, Jokowi’s violent turn could be seen as a similar maneuver as that of Thaksin and Duterte, part of a trend of populists engaging in violent anti-drug campaigns, resulting in increased support among domestic hardliners.
Taking stock of the political incentives that influence this escalation in turn impacts how observers should best advocate for rules-based order and transparency in the Indonesian justice system. Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation, Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation, Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts, Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Extreme examples of stigma and prejudice relating to the virus are also on the rise. Now it is to locate and confront. The use of capital punishment, extrajudicial killings, and other extreme methods in the anti-drug campaign have long been discussed by Indonesian leaders within the context of their political utility. Directed by Jag Mundhra. There are too few drug dealers who are dead, while they have killed thousands of people.”5
In some parts of the media, the policy change been linked to the notion of shoot to kill.
Though he has already taken a stance on narcotics stricter than most of his immediate predecessors, Jokowi has in recent months expressed the desire to engage in even more severe anti-drug efforts.
“To imagine a country like India under lockdown and to expect everything to go smoothly within an hour is unrealistic,” he said. Chicago-area police reportedly warned by FBI of gang pact to 'shoot on-sight any cop' The alert was sent out by FBI officials last week, reports say Ever since Tennessee, however, police may not shoot unless they believe the fleeing felon poses a threat of violence. The looming threat of an increasingly violent crackdown on drugs in Indonesia should spark concern among policymakers in Washington and beyond. ' Shoot on Sight' Dog Law Survives State Court Test. On July 21, 2017, Jokowi stated that Indonesia was in a state of emergency due to widespread drug use, consequently instructing law enforcement officers that “if [narcotics suspects] resist a little bit, just shoot them immediately.”2 Similarly, Tito Karnavian, the Indonesian national police chief who in 2016 strongly denied that his forces were to adopt a shoot-on-sight policy as it “leads to abuse of power,”3 has in recent months instructed officers “not to hesitate shooting drug dealers who resist arrest.”4 Meanwhile, in response to criticism on the change in protocol, National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Budi Waseso opined that “people said that the BNN cannot shoot on the spot.
In Delhi, a man was arrested on suspicion of spitting at a woman from the north-east of the country – where people are more likely to bear a closer resemblance to ethnic Chinese people – and calling her “corona”. However, given Jokowi’s apparent desire to lean into nationalist fervor in anticipation of the 2019 elections, foreign observers must be cautious and thoughtful when addressing rights violations in Indonesia. Here, it is fruitful to turn to similar cases in Southeast Asia in which populist leaders turned to hardline anti-drug policies.
The new policy has resulted in a change of tactics for firing at moving vehicles. “If people do not listen and stay indoors, we will be forced to implement a 24-hour curfew,” said K Chandrashekar Rao. the torso).
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