Cops to question Ramasamy for criticising police over Batu Arang shooting
GEORGE TOWN: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy has been summoned by Bukit Aman over an opinion piece critical of the police.
He said he would be questioned next week over an article on Sept 16 titled “New government but the same old police force”.
The article, published by FMT and Malaysiakini, questioned the police for gunning down three men including a Sri Lankan in Batu Arang, Selangor, last month.
“The police under the changed political circumstances must wake up to the idea that the repetition of the old narrative, ‘there was chase, the robbers shot at the police and the police returned fire resulting in their deaths’, is not acceptable,” Ramasamy wrote.
In the Sept 14 shooting, police said they were forced to open fire on a car carrying three men – Sri Lankan national Janarthanan Vijayaratnam, his brother-in-law Thavaselvan and Maghendran Santhirasegaran – after a 7km chase from Bandar Country Homes in Rawang.
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Kaytee notes:
This is outrageous to the rights of free speech by Dr Ramasamy. And the police have, I'm afraid to say, resorted to intimidating tactics in hauling Dr Rama in for questioning just because he criticised their actions.
Where is it that states a citizen cannot criticise a public service? The PDRM should come down to Australia and NZ to see how citizens lambasted and lambaste the police forces for anything they believe had been wrong. Indeed, Dr Rama has been correct to point out that it may be a “New government but with the same old police force”.
I know that the IGP is a dead loss but it's annoying that no one in the cabinet, especially the PM and Home Minister, has spoken out against such police intimidation. I suppose the 'Malay Dignity' has to be upheld in face of Parti PRIBUMI's impending loss in Tanjung Piai.
He's just a show-off, typical of his tribesmen and their ilks now in the government. No, he's not an ordinary citizen.
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