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Lawyer Questions Lack Of Police Injuries In Alleged Shootouts With Armed Robbers

7 months agoTue, 20 Aug 2024 07:30:53 GMT

Lawyer Questions Lack Of Police Injuries In Alleged Shootouts With Armed Robbers

Lawyer Tinomudaishe Chinyoka has queried why there are no reported injuries among police officers during alleged shootouts with suspected armed robbers.

Chinyoka’s comments follow a statement from Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi on Monday, which detailed the shooting of two armed robbery suspects during a confrontation with detectives in a bushy area between Mpilo Hospital and Richmond, Bulawayo, on Sunday.

While Chinyoka said that he does not wish for police officers to be harmed during such encounters, he finds the pattern troubling.

He suggested that suspects may be “executed” by police, either for refusing to share the “loot” or to eliminate the suspects after sharing the proceeds of their crime with the police. Chinyoka posted on X:

How come in these shootouts no policeman is ever injured? Not praying for that mind, but why do we still have armed robbers when they are so bad at using the arms?
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Or, are we just executing people at “indications” when they refuse to share their loot? Or when they actually do share? Witnesses, after all, are inconvenient.

An X user responded to Chinyoka: “You have no idea what you are campaigning for. If a robber holds you at gunpoint once, you will realise how stupid it is to get soft on those guys.”

However, Chinyoka reiterated his position, stating that the killings were indeed suspicious. He said:

Wait until a member of your family is accused of being a robber and shot during “a shootout” and come back here to pontificate.

Another X user expressed his support for Police actions saying:

To be honest no one should care about armed robbers, they should be killed immediately on the crime scene, l was once a victim of these armed robbers, so l big up our police for these.

However, one Patrick Zuva condemned the “extrajudicial killings” of suspects by police. He said:

Unfortunately, this is what has become of our law enforcement agencies and judicial systems. Highly corrupt and a law unto themselves, empowered and cheered on by a government and ruling party lacking a moral compass (Chris Mutsvangwa’a press conference from yesterday).

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53 Comments

Mazuva · 7 months ago

Chinoda is very right. He is opening our eyes to the fact that our saviours are no saints. They need a close watch. They could actually turn out to be worse than the robbers or they are now robbing and killing the robbers.

Bismarck · 7 months ago

Chinyoka has opened my eyes to another kind of thing! Thank you Sir!

Zeus mfana · 7 months ago

Something fishy

Phoenix · 7 months ago

saka basa re forensics nderei can't they test for gunpowder residue kuti vaone if these alleged robbers fired shots. there might be something sinister happening zveshuwa. nekuti kana mapurisa ave kutora ndiwo mari dzabirwa vanhu that makes them robbers as well

Supercop · 7 months ago

Our Forensic Science Laboratory is under the same CID.

Mukomana wekujecha · 7 months ago

Mbudzi unodya payaka sungirirwa

Naiza · 7 months ago

😭😭😭

Dhibhura · 7 months ago

Mbavha ngadzitsakatike maCdes..Kukohwa pausina kurima hayiite

👁️ · 7 months ago

Kana wapinda chipurisa wazvipira kuona kuti mutemo watevedzerwa. Mbavha namakororo anepfuti ibasa rako kuvabata. Kana uri gwara chinja basa kana department. Haungopfuri vanhu madiro sezvinofunga povho. Iwe you know when you may shoot, kwete pose pose.

Fox · 7 months ago

The lives of all citizens and our police officers are always at the mercy of armed robbers who shoot to kill. I'm very concerned about the security of our officers who deal with armed robbers. However, it's important that the officers operate within the confines of the law to enforce the law. The police have created the impression that they are are shot at first and shoot back to effect arrest and protect themselves. There is also the impression that armed robbers always shoot first and miss all the time. In every encounter, the police have to pick empty cartridges of bullets fired by the robbers, but these are never forthcoming. Hence the suspicion of extra judicial killings of suspects by the police. The robber and suspect have to appear before the courts for justice to be served.

noname · 7 months ago

true

👀👀 · 7 months ago

vachinyoka ngavamboendwa navo ku ambush,vaone kt nyaya yacho haina kumira mushe,armed robber akakutangira kusimudza pfuti akafita kukuburitsa huropi,so ukamutangira SHOOT

Gurundoro' · 7 months ago

I concur with you kkk I remember wen I used to work at Zimparks poacher rikangokutangira zvadhakwa and at times some of these gun wielding robbers vanotorova pfuti zvekuti stand out yacho inotoita kunge battlefield,I wish also kuti Mr Chinyoka vambofambwa navo kumaraids

👀👀 · 7 months ago

kuSA wese ane Spaza anogara nepfuti,dai vakaisawo mutemo iwoyo muno kt isu vetuma small business tigare nepfuti,unonzwa ma comments aunopiwa nevanhu unotoona kt uripachikona,havazive kt ndirikushanda kuita mu civil servant wemumba mangu chaiye,handitopi vanhu lift ndaakubva kwaChikwanha ,regai vaurayiwe vanhu vanoba nepfuti

Oncemore · 7 months ago

I think police deaths and injuries are kept as a secret, not for public knowledge. That is for security reasons

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Keep on thinking

Big Dude · 7 months ago

@oncemore, where do you derive your theories from?

Oncemore · 7 months ago

Pindura thank you for the news, but it looks like you are summarizing the stories.

porongi · 7 months ago

this lawyer knows nothing about the police force,in shot not every police officer is there to deal with those dangerous armed robbers.They have what we call snipers in the military who are highly trained for such tasks ku army kotori neinonzi commando so don't ever think that you so called robbers will match them.only unarmed civilians can be overpowered by matsotsi enyu iyayo

Supercop · 7 months ago

Porongi urikuporonga shuwa. You say that the lawyer knows nothing about the police. True, and he knows the law. It's about the law, not about the police. Then you go on about the army snipers which have nothing to do with the law, the robbers and the police.

Bismarck · 7 months ago

True point

· 7 months ago

The lawyer knows the law under which the police must operate

hoy · 7 months ago

he should watch ID channel if u got no dstv nganyarare coz akapusa lawyer uyu

correct · 7 months ago

lt goes with your luck police are experienced than armed robbers in this shootout thing they even went to training

Anonymous · 7 months ago

It shows kuti police yemuno maoresa.

ziso · 7 months ago

whether killing as a cover-up or else the fact remain they are not good pple in community

chaka · 7 months ago

what e lawyer is saying is simply just common sense. Even at war where Gun fire is exchanged, you figure out that there are those who get overpowered and are held captive no wonder how they are injured. They said on every occasion ey exchange gunfire with robbers , but surprisingly not a single occasion have we heard of one who have gotten being injured and was held captive fr testification's sake.

Bismarck · 7 months ago

Very strange

master-switch · 7 months ago

I once asked the same question on this platform sometime ago,I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this pattern, according to the law munhu wese is innocent until proven guilty by the judiciary,imagine someone giving the police false information that you're an armed robber then the police comes and shoot you without verifying the credibility of the informer..

🧐 · 7 months ago

Let the police shoot to kill these armed robbers cause they too are armed and dangerously, and out of despair can kill any thing a long its way,, If these robbers know that any confrontation with police they should refrain from such activities but here we are now they seem enjoying this cat and mouse game and with the media awash with such killings they should simply refrain from playing dangerously with police and law

Teflon Don · 7 months ago

Kusaziva mutemo ndodambudzidzo revazhinji.

Enchanter · 7 months ago

Come to think of it,the point is worth to ponder 🤔

fugu pfeee · 7 months ago

saka lawyer uyo ari kushuwira kukuwara kwemapirisa manje police ine ma snippers. ma robbers anenge achikwatawo kukudza nyaya kana vakapfura police. shoot to kill ndomboma,,, pasi ne mbaaaaaavhaaaaa

💀 · 7 months ago

nzwisisa chirungu

🧐 · 7 months ago

Hapana zvekunzisisa apa that sympathy is dangerous ku mhondi, the same applies to the would be protesters on nations event with respectable delegation, it's treasonous that one, and if you check the aftermath, our image having been soiled, where can you get investors, so that too should be treated like these robberies cases, economic suborteurs, and that pennal settlement is absolute

Si**** · 7 months ago

But hazvisi necessary kuuraya suspect because ndiyo source of more information

CIO · 7 months ago

can u risk your life just to get information

proff · 7 months ago

my question too

👀👀 · 7 months ago

my question too,suspects are very dangerous coz ther's no smoke without fire,ngavauraiwe,sekuno ku Chiitown ma1,ini ndaakutobuda mu town izvozvi,unenge uchiziikanwa,zvinonzi une mari iwe washandira maybe 50 or 60 us,ndinototya

Makatukura · 7 months ago

Mbavha dzakapakata ngadzipfurwe

CIO · 7 months ago

the lawyer might be right but what mostly happen ndezvekuti police ikanzwa kuti ndotsotsi iro vanongokudhuura without questions vachityira upenyu hwawo mapurisa mamwe akafira kubvunza so kutongosvika vakadhuura munhu then voisa report kuti he fired first kuti vasabatwa nemhosva

. · 7 months ago

wat if police ikanzwa manyepo

Justice · 7 months ago

Taura hako @. Rudzi rwedu rune dambudziko rokusaziva mutemo. Tinofunga kuti mupurisa anongoita zvaanoda kana zvatinoda isu. Kuno mutemo waanotevedzera unocontrolla zvavanoita namaitire. Mutemo ndiro basa ragweta. Ari kutokuudza kuti mapurisa anogona kuva ari kutyora mutemo apa. Mapurisa acho anogona kutozvisungirwa izvozvo kuenda mujere. Ndiyo inonzi rule of law.

SRSR · 7 months ago

after sharing the loot touraya hedu evidence lawyer iro ratamba nechokwadi

CIO · 7 months ago

no no lawyer iro harizive zvoitika kofiwa uko ukapa tsotsi mukana rokudhuura zvee they shoot without questions then voti he fired first on papers

Anonymous · 7 months ago

these lawyers are a nuisance, they have nothing to do but question and criticize everything, we don't want armed robbers roaming around unchecked, lawyers trying to sound important, that's why the opposition is dead because they are all lawyers who want to try and sound more clever than the next

Anonimasi · 7 months ago

But he is right pamwe vakuuraya vanhu after vatora mari.. why is it nothing is being recovered from the apprehended robbers

🧐 · 7 months ago

Zvemari hazvina basa izvo kuitira kana kusiya mbavha dzakapakata pfuti, I shoot to kill, infact mbavha yese zvayo is very dangerous even other weapons they carry besides guns, so they have no mercy to humans, zvikara izvo, shoot to kill pachezvayo should be deterrent enough to stop their acts

Pp · 7 months ago

Pasine mbavha