Adil Najam
Looking at this picture just makes my blood boil (click on picture for a larger view). I do not know the details of the situation, nor who did what or said what or who is at fault or what fault. But the body language and attitude depicted here just has me reeling.
What is being said and how did this end? I would love to find out, but I suspect I know already. Does anyone want to reconstruct how this conversation and confrontation might have gone?
Regular readers know of my fascination with cops, but it seems I am not the only one. Asma who blogs at Metroblog Islamabad as ‘A for Apple’ posted this photograph as part of a bunch of police related photographs from her collection. The picture was reprinted at Online News, is by Ehsan Khan and the original caption is suggestive (although one wonders about the authenticity of the details provided):
A boy speaks [sic] makes a point with a model policeman of Islamabad Traffic Police after violating the traffic rules near Parliament House. The boy eventually made his point with the policeman and was not issued any ticket.
You’ll forgive me if on account of growing up in the states instead of s.asia, i have a different perspective.
Where people do as they wish with little impunity, the environment is ripe for abuse of power. In s.asia, that may be wealthy kids. In the U.S., the police force tends to be a profession that attracts simple-minded thugs. This is the converse of your s.asian situation.
I’ve seen this abuse repeatedly, all over boston, especially while i was an undergrad, but here is a particularly gross case: Mostafa Tabatabainejad, UCLA student, repeatedly tasered in UCLA’s Powell library (which i’ve studied at) while other students protest in fear and disgust. His crime? He failed to produce his BruinCard upon random check, and told a cop who had grabbed onto him as he exited to let go of him..
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_319101652.html
Student cell-phone video of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs
[quote comment=”12382″]Why are they allowed to even come out of thier car. It looks like they are threatning the cop. Here in US , you can not come out of the car if stopped by a cop.[/quote]
…and a cop will not talk to the boy and instead with the driver of the car who is responsible for the offence. If boy makes too much trouble he would be taken to a side by a second cop and so on.
Even the best police in Pakistan have miles to go quality wise.
Why are they allowed to even come out of thier car. It looks like they are threatning the cop. Here in US , you can not come out of the car if stopped by a cop.
Think Positive
Excuse me Sir ,Is the road ahead closed.
I need to get to Aab para.
[quote comment=”10998″]this is a typical case of cheapsters from pindi coming and making a neusance of themselves in islamabad.[/quote]
Oh wow! are you telling that all decent people are living in Islamabad and not a single in Rawalpindi, huh!!!
[quote post=”424″]All inappropriate comments are edited[/quote]
I think I missed something! was I cursed/abused by *someone*? :>, let me check the cache version of the post on google:d