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VIGILANTES BORICUA
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By: Sherman Wildman
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The Puerto Rico police department continues to perpetuate its image of corruption and incompetence.
In almost daily revelations, rumors become headlines, with police escorting drug shipments, police planting evidence on innocent vitims, open killings, citizen violence abuse, shabby police investigations.
Now we are confronted with police-approved vigilante killings. A group of neighbors murdered a man who was threatening and abusing this wife last week. The group followed him and somehow killed him. The incredible aftermath was that the police superintendent proclaimed it "justifiable homicide". I believe that most of us support self-defense to some degree but a neighborhood execution is not "justifiable homicide".
In effect, the superintendent was approving a vigilante lynching. Vigilantes arise and are condoned because citizens can no longer count on official agents to enforce the law.
Have we reached the point in Puerto Rico where the police can no longer be counted on, and where the police are excusing those who take the law into their own hands.
If it`s true, then we should all be informed of the new acceptable vigilante rules.
Sherman Wildman with a Monday Memo.
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